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CHICAGO 

CHARLES  H    KERR  &  COMPANY 

175  MONROE  STREET 

1894 


Entered  according  to  act  of  Congress,  in  the  year  1894, 

by  John  Visher, 
In  the  office  of  the  Librarian  of  Congress,  at  Washington,  D.  C. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 

TOPICAL. 


PAGE. 

CLASSIFIED  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 6-7 

INTRODUCTION , 9-12 

CONFERENCE  OF  CHARITIES 13-14 

CHICAGO'S  GENERAL  CHARIIIES 15-141 

CHICAGO'S  SPECIAL  CHARITIES 143-161 

CHICAGO'S  CHURCH   CHARITIES 162-229 

COOK  COUNTY'S  CHARITIES,   PUBLIC..... 230-237 

ILLINOIS'  STATE  CHARIIIES,   PUBLIC ...238  253 

STATISTICS  OF  PUBLIC  STATE  CHARITIES    .....          254 
STATISTICS  OF  PUBLIC  COUNTY  CHARITIES...,          231 

STATISTICS  OF  POLICE    DEPARTMENTS., 255 

BENEVOLENT  WORK  OF  CHICAGO  POLICE  DEPT..         142 
ALPHABETICAL  INDEX 256-260 

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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS— CLASSIFIED. 


ASYLUMS  AND  HOMES  FOn  HOSPITALS,   DISPENSARIES   AND 

CHILDREN.  SCHOOLS    FOn    NURSES.1 

PAGE.     Alexian  Brothers'  Hospita.,  Cath 173 

Children's  Aid  Society 51     Augusiaua  Hospital,  Swtdii-li  Luth.   ..   194 

Chicago  Orphan  Asylum 35     baptist  Hospital 172 

C.  Nursery  and  Half  Orphan  Asylum. .    39     Charity  Hospital 21 

Crippled  Children's  Home 11.1     Emergency  Hospital,  Lutheran 23O 

Chicago  Foundlings'  Home '  33     German  Hospi.al 15-> 

Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless 24     Hahnen.a  n  Hospital 2;^< ' 

C.  Industrial  School  for  Girls,  Cath 173     Cook  County  h»rpital.. 

Church  Home  for  Orphans 191 

Danish  Children's  Home 196 

Deaconess'  Orphan  Asylum. Lake  Bluff  198 

111.  Industrial  School  fo    Girls 73 

111.  School  or  Agr.  and  Man    Training     67 

Masonic  Orphans' Home 161 

Newsboys' Home 95 

St.  Joseph's  and  other  Cotholic  Homes   177 
St.Mary's  Ind'tr'l  Sch'l  for  Boys.Cath. .    18O 

St.  Mary's  Home  for  Children 186 

St.  Vincent's  Infant  Asylum,  Cnh 183 

Uhlich'sEv.  Orphan  Asylum...     198 


232 

111.  E.  Hospital  tor  Insane. Kankakee.  245 
111.  N.  "  "  Elgin  2.'.0 

111.  Cen.        "  "  Jiicks'nv'le  249 

111.  S.  "  "  Anna  247 

111.  Hospital  for  Insane  Criminals.. ..  249 

111.  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary 254 

Light  and  Hope  Hospital 2it> 

Marine  Hospital,  U    S 25O 

Maurice  Porter  Memorial  92 

Mercy  Hospital,  Catholic 176 

Michael  Reese  Hospital,  Hebrew 214 

Presbyterian  Hospital. 


Waifs' Mission  and  Training  School...    168     Provident  Hospiial.  Colored Inl 

St.  Elizabeth  Hospital         182 

St.  Jo.-eph's  Hospital 178 

St.  Luke's  Hospital 184 

..    14(1 


DAY  NURSERIES  O*    CRECHES. 

Hull  House  Creclid 65 

Margaret  Etter  Creche 94 

St.  James' Day  Nursery,  Episcopal    ...    187 
The  Church  of  the  Redeemer's  Creche  2O6 

University  Creche 51 

Unity  School  Creche.  Unitarian 208 

W.C.T.U.Bethesda  and  Talcott  Creches  138 

Workers' Creche 211 

The  Chicago  Day  Nursery  Association  122 

FRESH   AIS  CHARITIES. 

Daily  News" Fresh  Air  Fund, ""Country 
Week"  and  Lincoln  Park  Sanitarium   107 

Lake  Geneva  Holiday  Home 91 

Flower  Mission 28 

Convalescents'  Home 188 

HOMES  FOR     AGED. 

Altenheim,  German 147 

Church  Home,  Episcopal 189 

Home  of  Mercy,  Swedish  Luth. 229 

Little   Sisters   or  the  Poor,  N.,  S.  and 

W.  Side  Homes 176 

Old  People's  Home.Prot 97 

Cook  County  Infirmary 236 

Home  for  the  Friendless.. 24 

HOMES   FOR  WOMEN. 

Florence  Crittenden  Anchorage 139 

Home  for  Self-Supporting  Women 62 

Home  for  I  he  Friendless 24 

Minnetonka 124 


Temperance  Hospital , 

Wesley  Hospital.  Meth 2OO 

Women's  and  Children's  Hospital 29 

Woman's  Hospital 135 

For  Dispensaries,  see  I  ist 6(  > 

RELIEF    AND   LABOR. 

Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society 42 

Danish  Relief  Society l.'.n 

Germ;i  n  Society 143 

G    A    R.  Relief  Corps,  etc l.V. 

Holland  Relief  Society 151 

Illinois  Industrial  Association 82 

Norwegian  Relief  and  Aid  Six-iet.\ 1">I 

School  Children's  Aid  Society li>2 

Soldier's  Home  in  Chicago 16<t 

St.  Andiew's  (Scotch)  Society 152 

St  George's  (English)  Association 153 

Swiss  Benevolent  Society.   154 

United  Hebrew  Charities 212 

PROTECTIVE. 

Bureau  of  Justice 15 

Citizens'  League 58 

II     Humane  Society 78 

Protective    Agency   for  Women    and 

Children iis 

Suppre.-sion  of  Vice 

MISCELLANFOUS. 

Chi 'd:  en's  Home  Society 


134 


Mary  A.  Ahrens   Mission 171      <:.  Exchange  for  Woman's  Work... 


St.  Francis'  House  of  Providence 183 

St.  Joseph's  Home.and  House  of  Mercy  177 

Y.  W.  C.  A.  (3)  Homes 163 

Young  Woman's  Home 141 

HOMES    FOR   REFORMATION. 
Erring  Woman's  Refug-"  for   Ke'orm..     19 
III. Home  for  Juvenile  Delinquents..   .    238 

House  of  the  Goo.l  Shepherd 174 

Martha  Washington  Home 132 

Washingtonian  Home  for  Inebriates  .   129 
W.  C.  T.  U.  Anchorage  for  Girls 139 


C.  Home  for  Incurables 

Friendly  Aid  Society 61 

III.  Conference  of  Chariiies 13 

III.  Training  School    fur  Nurses 82 

Jewish  Manual  Training  School 216 

Mechanics' Institute 38 

The  Armour  Ins- it  lite 1O5 

Socinl  Settlement- Li<t 60 

The  Civic  Federation  "Central  Relief)  116 
Visitation  and  Aid  Society,  Catholic..   181 

Vis  ting  Nurse  Association....   127 

Visiting  D-aeonesses.  M    E.. 197 

St.  Mnry's  Mission. P    Ei  ise 186 

Light  and  Hore  Missions ry  Society...  2i'6 

C    Medical  Mission 2'-'o 

Public  Baths ..    ]W 


RedCrossSoci  ty Ill 


KINDERGARTEN  ASSOCIATIONS 

C.  Free  Kindergarten  Assop  ntion 85 

C.  Froebel  Kindergarten  Association..    86 

C.  Kindergirten  Colleare  87 

For  List  of  Kindergartens  see 89 

*  The  Children's  Aid  Societv  nlnee*  its  ehi'dren  direct! 
the  others  of  this  class  placet  e'n  in  institutions  and  i 
time,  in  homes. 

t  *ll  of  Chicago's  hospitals  have  dispensaries    ami    ti.iining  schools   for  nurse 
nected  with  them.     For  a  full  list  of  dispensaries  see  page  6O. 


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TABLE   OF   CONTENTS — CLASSIFIED 


GENERALCHARITIES   'PRIVATE). 

Bureau  of  Justice 15 

Central  Free  Dispensary 18 

C.Eiring  Woman's  Ketuge  for  Reform    19 

Charity  Hospital 21 

C.  Exchange  for  Woman's  Work 22 

C.  Home  for  the  Friendless 24 

C.  Flower  Mission 28 

C.  Hospital  for  Women  and  Children.     29 

C.  Home  for  Incurables 32 

C. Foundlings'  Home 33 

C.  Orphan  Asylum 35 

C.  Nursery  and  Half  Orphan  Asylum..     39 

C.  Relief  and  Aid  Society 42 

Children's  Home  Society 49 

Children's  Aid  Society 51 

Citizens'  League f-8 

Friendly  Aid  Society 61 

Home  for  Self-Supporting  Women 62 

Hull  House 65 

111.  Conference  of  Charities  and  Cor- 
rection      13 

111. School  of  Agricult're  and  Man.Train    67 

III.  Industrial  School  for  Girls 73 

111.  Humane  Society 78 

111.  Training  School  for  Nurses 82 

111.  Industrial  Association        83 

Kindergarten  Associations 85 

Lake  Geneva  Fresh  Air  Association. ..     91 

Maurice  Porter  Hospital 92 

Margaret  Etl  er  Creche 94 

Newsboys' Home 9> 

Old  People's  Home 97 

Protective   Agency  for   Women   and 

Children  9* 

Free  Public  Baths 1OO 

Provident  Hospital  and  Training  Sch'l   IO1 

School  Children's  Aid  Socie.y 1O2 

Soldiers'  Home  in  Chicugu 16O 

The  Armour  Institute     105 

The  C.  Daily  News  Fresh  Air  Fund 1O7 

The  Home  for  Crippled  Children 112 

Tne  Civic  Federation  (Central  Relief).  116 
The  Chicago  Day  Nursery  Association  122 

The  Needlework  Guild 123 

The  Working  Woman's  Home  Ass'n..    124 

1  he  Mary  A.  Ahrens    Mission 171 

Visiting  Nurse  Association 127 

Waifs'  Mission  and  Training  School.. .    !•  8 

Washingtonian  Home 129 

W.  Society  for  the  Suppression  of  Vice  134 

Woman's  Hospital  of  Chicago 135 

Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  138 
\oung  Women's  Home 141 

COUNTY   CHARITIES    (PUBLIC). 

Relief  Agent 231 

Hospital 232 

Insane  Asylum 234 

Infirmary 236 

STATE  CHARITIES  (ILL.  PUBLIC1. 

Ill  State  Board  of  Public  Charities....  238 
111  Home  lor  Juvenile  Fein.  Offi  nders  238 
III.  Eastern  Hosp.  for  Ins.,  Kankakee  245 
III. Northern  Hospital  for  Insane. Flgin  25O 
111.  Cent.  Hosp.  for  Ins.,  Jacksonville..  249 
Hi. Southern  Hospital  for  Insane, Anna  '-47 
111. Hosp.  for  Insane Criminnls. Chester  252 
III  School  for  Deaf  Mutes.Jacksonville  244 
111.  School  for  Blind,  Jacksonville  ....  242 
111  School  for  Feeble  Minded,  Lincoln  24(1 
III  Soldiers  and  Sailors  Orphans'Home  24<) 
III.  Char.  Kve  and  E:«r  Infirmary.  2">< 
III.  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home.  156 


SPECIAL  CHARITIES. 

German  Society  of  Chicago 143 

German  Old  People's  Home 147 

German  Hospital 150 

l>anish  Relief  Society 150 

Holland  Relief  Society 151 

Norwegian  Relief  Society 151 

St.  Andiew's  (Scotch)  Society 152 

St.George's  (English)  BenevolentAssn  153 

Swiss  Benevolent  Society 154 

G.  A.  R.and  W.R.C.and  Ladies  G.A.R.  155 

Soldiers'  Home 160 

Masonic  Orphans' Home 161 

CHURCH   CHARITIES. 

PROTESTANT.-  UNDENOMINATIONAL lf>2 

Chicago  Erring  Woman's  Refuge 19 

Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless 24 

Kirkland  Free  Dispensary 167 

Light  and  Hope  Missionary  Society. . .   2*6 

Old  Peoples' Home 97 

Y.  W.  Christian  Association 163 

BAPTIST  ...  172 

Hospital 172 

Mission  Training  School 172 

CATHOLIC 173 

Alexiuii  brothers'  Hospital 173 

Chicago  Indusi i ial  School  for  Girls...  173 
Sr.Mary's  Industrial  School  for  Boys. .   18O 

Guardian  Angel  Orphan  Asylum 174 

House  of  the  Good  S   epherd 174 

Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor.  N.,  S.  and 

W.  S.  Homes 176 

Mercy  Hospital 176 

St.  Hizabeth's  Hospital 182 

St.  Joseph's  Homes,  Hospital,  etc 177 

St.  Vincent's  Infant  asylum 1H3 

Visitation  and  Aid  Society 181 

CONGREGATIONAL 

Workers' Creche 211 

EPISCOPAL  (PROTESTANT) 184 

Church  Homt  s  and  Orphanage 189 

Convalescents'  linn  <• 188 

St  .lames' Day  Nursery..     187 

St.  Luke's  Hospital,  etc 184 

LUTHERAN 193 

Augustana  Hospital 194 

Danish  Children's  Home 196 

Emergency  Hospital 23O 

German  Deaconesses'  Home     1 66 

Uhlich  Ev.L.  Orphan  Asylum 193 

Swedish  Home  of  Mercy 23O 

METHODIST  EPISCOPAL 197 

Deaconesses'  Home 197 

Deaconesses' Orphanage. 198 

Wesley  Hospital 2»KI 

Halsted  Street  Mission  School,  etc 199 

Epworih  House 201 

PRESBYTERIAN  HOSPITAL 203 

UNIVERSALIST 206 

Talcott  Creche 206 

UNITARIAN 

3rd  Church  and  Church  of  the  Messiah  207 

Unity  Creche 208 

All  Souls  Church  School 210 

C.  Medical    Mission,   S.   D.   A.  M.  Miss. 

and  Benev.    Association 22O 

Light  »nd   Hope  Hospital 226 

Salvation  Army 219 

HEBREW. 

United  Hebrew  Charities 212 

Jewish  Manual  Training  School 216 

N.  W.  Charity  Association 215 


INTRODUCTION. 

This  second  edition  of  the  Hand-book  of  Charities 
is  issued  under  the  auspices,  and  with  the  direct 
endorsement,  of  the  Illinois  Conference  of  Charities. 

The  object  is,  as  it  was  of  our  first  edition,  "to 
give  such  authoritative  data  as  will  enable  a  busi- 
ness man  to  form  an  intelligent  opinion,  as  to  the 
relative  value  and  scope  of  the  various  charitable 
efforts  of  the  City  and  State. " 

The  book  was  intended  as  a  Guide  and  Directory, 
and  is  so  used.  It  is  doing  service  as  a  book  of 
reference  in  Public  Libraries  and  Universities,  and 
is  an  acknowledged  aid  to  the  benevolent  public  in 
determining  quickly  and  wisely  what  charities  ap- 
pealing to  them  are  worthy  of  support.  As  the 
former  issue  of  5,000  copies  is  exhausted,  and  as 
the  charitable  situation  has  changed  materially  since 
1891,  a  revision  is  made  necessary. 

Some  additional  matter  which  affords  a  basis  for 
comparison  is  also  given.  Thus,  to  aid  in  deter- 
mining the  adequacy  of  the  State  School  for  Feeble 
Minded  Children,  it  is  reported  that  700  applicants 
were  refused  admission,  41  being  in  our  Poor-house 
associating  with  327  children. 

Instead  of  marking  steady  progress  all  along  the 
line,  in  comparing  the  present  with  the  former  edi- 
tion we  note  in  some  respects  positive  retrogression. 
The  Helping  Hand,  "furnishing  aid  to  such  needy 
men  as  are  able  and  willing  to  work,"  was  discon- 
tinued; so  too  The  Shelter,  which  aimed  to  help  re- 
formed inebriates  to  a  self-respecting  position  in  so- 

9 


IO  INTRODUCTION 

ciety;  as  also,  for  last  summer,  the  Lake  Geneva 
Holiday  Home,  which  has  remained  closed  even 
though  5,000  persons  sought  admission,  when  only 
500  could  in  any  case  have  been  accommodated. 
This  same  disproportion,  it  may  be  remarked,  pre- 
vailed between  the  work  done  and  that  which  needed 
doing  last  winter  with  reference  to  all  our  charities, 
the  County  Agent's  office  included.  Some  were 
forced  to  suspend  in  sheer  despair. 

The  conclusion  was  borne  in  upon  the  minds  of 
many  that  unless  we  are  to  do  violence  to  the  no- 
bler and  tenderer  instincts  of  humanity,  we  must 
make  philanthropy  more  of  a  social  factor  in  the 
community. 

But  there  are  signs  of  the  dawning  of  a  better 
day.  We  note  the  marked  increase  in  the  benevo- 
lent work  of  our  Police  Department,  of  the  labor 
organizations,  and  of  the  churches;  the  establish- 
ment by  our  Board  of  Education  of  special  schools 
for  the  Blind  and  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  besides  twenty 
Kindergartens;  the  founding  by  the  State  of  a  Home 
for  Juvenile  Female  Offenders;  the  opening  by  the 
City  Council  of  Free  Public  Baths;  the  broadening 
out  of  the  work  of  the  Daily  News  Fresh  Air  Fund 
by  the  projected  establishment  of  a  Children's  Hos- 
pital; the  reorganization  of  the  Illinois  Association 
for  the  giving  of  work  to  worthy  ex-convicts;  the 
greatly  increased  interest  in  Crippled  Children;  the 
tendency  of  thought  in  favor  of  cooperation  and  of 
union  between  different  organizations  doing  a  sim- 
ilar work,  a  notable  instance  in  point  being  the  union 
of  the  Children's  Aid  and  Children's  Home  Socie- 
ties. It  also  augurs  well  that  the  sentiment  is  gain- 


INTRODUCTION  II 

ing  that  work  should  whenever  possible  form  the 
basis  of  relief,  that  a  man  is  best  helped  when  he  is 
helped  to  help  himself,  this  being  more  conducive 
to  the  building  up  of  character,  and  the  benefactor 
then  becoming  not  a  giver  of  alms  but  a  friend. 

Considerable  sums  of  money,  more  than  $100,000, 
were  paid  out  for  relief  in  the  form  of  wages,  and 
for  a  few  months  last  winter  when  5,000  men  and 
2,000  women  were  given  work,  quite  an  impression 
was  made  on  the  community.  However,  the  effort 
was  short-lived,  and  left  withal  1,000  able-bodied 
men  in  idleness,  eating  unearned  bread  at  our  Poor- 
house,  and  as  many  more  at  our  Police  Stations, 
besides  the  innumerable  multitude  at  our  back-doors. 
Work-houses,  industrial  colonies  or  other  forms  of 
municipal  industries  have  never  as  yet  been  trans- 
planted to  American  soil.  We  listen  to  a  man's  cry 
for  bread,  but  are  deaf  to  his  prayer  for  work  to 
earn  that  bread. 

There  was.  however,  a  short  but  very  successful 
philanthrophic  undertaking  last  spring  which  stands 
out  in  strong  relief  against  the  dark  background  of 
that  most  pitiful  phase  of  the  present  destitution 
caused  by  enforced  idleness,  possible  alone  in  the 
centers  of  population.  At  an  expense  of  $5  per  cap- 
ita, 10  families,  12  orphans  and  40  single  men  were 
rendered  permanently  self-supporting  by  being  sent 
out  to  work  on  farms.  The  scale  of  such  operations 
could  be  extended  indefinitely;  indeed, a  similar  work 
has  been  prosecuted  in  New  York  City  for  several 
decades,  on  a  considerable  scale,  so  that  the  trans- 
planted persons  aggregate  hundreds  of  thousands. 


12  INTRODUCTION 

In  this  connection  it  should  be  noted  that  the  table 
of  Comparative  Statistics  of  Police  Departments, 
compiled  from  official  data  by  the  author,  shows  an 
increase  of  20  per  cent  in  arrests  annually  in  Chi- 
cago, against  a  decrease  of  .06  per  cent  in  New  York. 

The  poor  increasingly  flock  to  our  cities.  Supe- 
rior wisdom  must  divert  these  irrational  tidal  waves. 
Thus  alone  can  it  save  our  cities  and  at  the  same 
time  save  to  society  valuable  factors  in  our  social 
economy.  Of  skilled  artisans  there  are  none  too 
many,  and  these  very  rarely  are  in  need  of  relief. 
This  is  not  true,  however,  of  the  many  men  and 
women  without  trades  or  professions,  especially 
when,  as  is  often  the  case,  their  physical  condition, 
their  tastes  and  training  would  all  tend  to  make  of 
them  desirable  additions  to  agricultural  communities. 

Our  hope  is  that  by  presenting  such  facts  as  are 
contained  in  this  little  volume  improved  methods 
will  suggest  themselves,  and  thus,  as  was  the  part- 
ing word  of  our  former  edition,  this  publication, 
though  capable  of  improvement  in  the  future,  will 
have  a  strong  tendency  to  protect  the  charitable 
public  and  to  make  the  exercise  of  the  philanthropic 
impulse  safer,  more  intelligent  and  more  universal  — 
somewhat  commensurate  with  our  present  and  pros- 
pective needs,  and  in  keeping  with  the  growth  and 
development  of  this  great  metropolis  and  common- 
wealth. 

-JOHN  VISHER,  Secretary, 

Illinois  Conference  of  Charities  and  Correction. 
Chicago,  October  ist ,   1894. 


THE  ILLINOIS  CONFERENCE   OF  CHAR- 
ITIES   AND   CORRECTION. 

The  Conference  was  organized  May  26,  1891,  at 
a  meeting  held  at  the  Union  League  Club,  Chicago, 
called  by  Harvey  B.  Hurd,  at  the  instance  of  the 
presidents  of  several  of  the  leading  charities  of  Chi- 
cago. Representatives  of  fifty  societies  were  present. 

The  articles  of  organization  adopted  entitled  each 
society  doing  charitable  or  correctional  work  to  a 
representation  by  two  duly  accredited  delegates,  and 
make  the  presidents  members  ex-officio. 

ARTICLE  II. 

"The  purpose  shall  be  the  promotion  of  the  com- 
mon interests  of  the  charitable,  correctional  and 
philanthropic  institutions  of  the  State;  to  collect  and 
disseminate  information  concerning  their  work;  to 
hold  conferences  for  the  interchange  of  opinions  and 
the  comparison  of  methods;  to  engage  in  such  work 
as  can  be  best  done  only  through  joint  effort,  and 
adopt  such  measures  as  will  tend  to  secure  greater 
efficiency,  co-operation  and  economy." 

ARTICLE    VI. 

"It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  executive  committee 
to  make  annually  a  list  of  the  incorporated  charita- 
ble and  correctional  institutions  of  the  city  of  Chi- 

13 


14  ILLINOIS   CONFERENCE  OF   CHARITIES 

cago  and  the  State  of  Illinois  which  are  members  of 
this  Conference  and  which  in  the  judgment  of  the 
committee  are  entitled  to  public  confidence.  This 
shall  be  open  to  inspection — may  be  added  to  and 
taken  from  or  otherwise  corrected  by  the  Conference 
at  any  of  its  regular  meetings.  Certificates  of  mem- 
bership and  confidence  shall  be  granted  to  the  afore- 
said organizations  upon  application.  Such  certifi- 
cates shall  be  signed  by  the  President  and  Secretary 
of  the  executive  committee.  Upon  request  of  any 
of  said  societies,  certificates  shall  be  issued  to  their 
solicitors.  The  form  of  all  such  certificates  shall  be 
prescribed  by  the  executive  committee." 

The  first  annual  meeting  was  held  at  the  Sherman 
House,  May  26,  1892;  the  second,  March  u,  1893. 
The  attendance  at  both  was  full  and  representative. 
An  Executive  Committee  is  selected  at  the  annual 
meetings,  for  a  term  of  one  year. 

This  committee,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions 
o  f  the  bove  articles  of  organization,  issues  the 
Hand-book  of  Charities, and  when  called  for,  its  sys- 
tem of  Certificates  of  Confidence. 

OFFICERS    AND    EXECUTIVE     COMMITTEE. 

HARVEY  B.   HURD,  President, 

94  Washington  Street,  Room  28. 
JOHN  VISHER,  Secretary, 

94  Washington  Street,  Room  28. 
CHARLES  M.  FAYE,   Treasurer, 

123  Fifth  Ave.,  Office  of  the  Daily  News. 
RICHARD  S.  TUTHILL  JOSEPH  W.  ERRANT 

C.  H.  S.   MIXER  MILTON  GEORGE 

MRS.  M.  R.  M.  WALLACE  MRS.  Louis  SCHRAM 


GENERAL  CHARITIES. 

BUREAU  OF  JUSTICE. 

ROOMS  718-719,  GARDEN  CITY  BLOCK,  55  FIFTH  AVE. 

Objects:  "To  assist  in  securing  legal  protection 
against  injustice  for  those  who  are  unable  to  protect 
themselves;  to  take  cognizance  of  the  workings  of 
existing  laws  and  methods  of  procedure,  and  to 
suggest  improvements;  to  propose  new  and  better 
laws,  and  to  make  efforts  toward  securing  their  en- 
actment. " 

Receipts  for  1893  from  donations  $5,200.62,  from 
clients  $697.37;  expenditure  $6,124.90. 

The  Bureau  in  its  annual  reports  recommends 
reforms  such  as  making  seduction  an  offense  against 
the  State,  adoption  of  better  measures  for  securing 
support  from  husbands  for  wives  and  children,  super- 
vising mutual  benefit  societies,  protecting  the  inno- 
cent and  friendless  in  the  police  courts,  returning  an 
equitable  share  of  payments  on  "time  sales"  if  fore- 
closed, establishing  a  chattel  mortgage  loan  bank, etc. 

The  Bureau  employs  a  solicitor  a  part  of  the 
time,  has  no  religious  affiliations  or  endowments, 
and  owns  no  property. 

15 


WORK  OF  THE  BUREAU  OF  JUSTICE  FROM  ORGANIZATION 
UP  TO  JANUARY,   1894. 


CASES  INVOLVING: 

1888 

1889 

1890 

1891 
10  mo 

1C92 

1893 

Total 

811 
573 
881 
227 
183 
175 
340 
153 
75 
161 
1080 
108 
210 
4663 
205 
435 
3601 
1118 
4867 

Chattel  mortgage  matters  

45 
fi 
40 
8 
7 
9 
4 
8 
1 
2 
9 
3 
5 
120 
6 
76 
252 
261 
308 

121 
67 
107 
29 
30 
16 
24 
43 
11 
17 
115 
9 
16 
131 
24 
114 
815 
189 
619 

186 
104 
180 
49 
22 
23 
53 
22 
10 
33 
222 
9 
22 
755 
44 
47 
717 
167 
1118 

174 
135 

158 
48 
46 
22 
88 
27 
18 
44 
219 
38 
61 
819 
37 
79 
587 
98 
825 

147 
139 
183 
43 
52 
61 
90 
20 
22 
37 
284 
39 
66 
880 
49 
45 
624 
145 
1094 

138 
12i 
213 
50 
26 
50 
81 
33 
13 
28 
231 
12 
40 
1958 
45 
74 
606 
258 
903 

Landlord  and  tenant  

Threatened  exemptions  
Pros,  for  cruel  treatment  
Prosecution  of  crime  .    ..    .... 

Prosecution  of  fraud  
Prosecutions  by  suits,  etc  
Support  of  parents.. 

Pros,  under  ordinances  

Wrongs  to  women  and  girls  

Real  property  .         

Miscellaneous  work  

Total  

1164 

328 
133 

$2475 

318.61 

2497 

929 
628 
S9066 
$14.43 

$4048 

271 
30 
24 

299 
26 

271 

'"is 

12 
10 
14 

3783 

764 
615 
$7775 
812.65 

$2876 

317 
32 
26 

357 
18 

314 
3 
27 
5 
16 
10 

3523 

666 
526 

$8204 
S15.59 

81673 

303 
20 
34 

333 

24 

287 
16 
1-1 
6 
30 
4 

4020 

4881 

19868 

STATEMENT  OF  WAGES  CLAIMS. 

Collected  

642 

$8852 
$13.78 

$1131 

256 
17 
24 

280 

17 

246 
10 
20 
4 
14 
3 

470 
$6138 
513.06 

$260 

272 
12 
22 

291 
Ib 

263 
9 
9 
3 
15 
7 

3014 
$42515 
$14.69 

Si  0008 

1521 
121 
143 

1785 
1663 
122 

1785 
1469 
52 
95 
33 
94 
42 

Average  claim  
Other  money  claims  

RECORD  OF  COURT  WORK. 
Civil  suits  

102 
10 
13 

103 
22 

88 
14 
7 
3 
9 
4 

Civil  suits  prosecuted  

Criminal  suits  prosecuted     
Ci  iminal  suits  defended  
Quasi-criminal  prosecuted  
Quasi-criminal  defended  

1785 

Of    the    1785  cases    the   Bureau  was  successful    in 
1612;  unsuccessful  in  85;   and  88  were  withdrawn. 

Of  the  3014  wages  claims  collected,  2315  were  col- 
lected without  suit. 

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BUREAU  OF  JUSTICE  If 

CASES  ILLUSTRATIVE  OF   THE   WORK  OF  THE  BUREAU 
OF  JUSTICE. 

With  the  help  of  the  Bureau,  K.  prosecuted  an 
officer  who  had  without  provocation  shot  him,  and 
obtained  his  conviction.  Many  of  the  officers  of  the 
district  made  it  thereafter  their  business  to  harass 
him,  and  cause  his  arrest.  The  Bureau  appeared 
in  court  to  protect. 

Mrs.  S.  borrowed  $20  on  household  goods,  giving 
a  chattel  mortgage.  When  she  came  to  the  Bureau 
she  had  already  paid  $17.50  in  6  months,  and  $14 
were  still  claimed  as  due.  She  was  absolutely  pen- 
niless. A  friend  advanced  a  small  loan,  and  with 
this  settlement  was  made,  preventing  foreclosure, 
saving  money  to  her.  She  has  since  paid  back  the 
loan. 

C.  has  abandoned  his  wife  and  children  and  con- 
tributes nothing  to  their  support.  The  Bureau  caused 
his  arrest  for  abandonment  and  compelled  him  to 
contribute  regularly  to  the  support  of  his  family. 

Mrs.  P.  sold  a  little  stock     of  goods,  through    an 
agent.      It  was  all  she  had  in    the  world.      After  the 
sale  the  agent  failed  to  turn  over    the    money.      The 
Bureau  compelled  him  to  pay  her    what    is  due  her. 
J.    C.  STIRLING,  President  and  Treasurer. 
H.   B.  CRAGIN,  Vice-President. 
EDW.  C.  WENTWORTH,  Secretary. 
JOSEPH  W.  ERRANT,  Attorney. 

W.  H.  WINSI.OW  A.  L.  SINGER 

M.   M.  MANGASARIAN  CHAS.  E,  KREMER 

O.  B.   GREEN  W.   H.  COLVIN 

C.  R.  CORBIX  J.  A.  HUNT 

F    J.  LOESCH  A.  HEURTLEY 

C.  H.   HAM. 


CENTRAL  FREE   DISPENSARY  OF 
CHICAGO. 

N.  E.  CORNER  OF  WOOD  AND  HARRISON  Sts. 
Incorporated    1873. 

Objects:  "The  objects  are  to  aid  all  persons  who 
are  sick  and  unable  to  pay  for  medical  attendance; 
and  to  do  this  work  efficiently  at  a  very  small  cost 
and  with  no  pecuniary  profit." 

Total  number  of    pat  ients,    1 893 1 8, 444 

Number  of  visits  of  patients  to  the  Dispensary  33, 107 

Number  of  visits  to  homes  of  patients 4,689 

Number  of  prescriptions    furnished 31, 152 

Number  of  patients  refused  treatment 339 

Cost  of  conducting  the  Dispensary  during  the 
past    year,   including    annual  rent  of  $330 

$4,812.83 

Average    cost  of  each     patient  for  attendance 
(18,444  patients),  and  medicine  for  current 

year 26 

Cost  of  each  visit  (37,796    visits) 13 

Cost  of  each  prescription  (31, 152) l5l/2 

The  Dispensary  is  open  from  i  to  4  P.  M.  daily. 
The  support  is  from  investments,  amounting  to 
$25,000,  and  donations;  there  is  no  paid  solicitor. 
There  are  no  religious  affiliations.  Last  year  Cook 
County  Commissioners  appropriated  $1,500  for  at- 
tendance on  the  sick  poor  of  the  West  Division. 
The  expenditures  were  $4,692.  No  building  is 
owned,  Rush  Medical  College  furnishing  accommo- 
dations at  a  small  rental. 

L.    R.    HALL,  ESQ.,  President. 

EDWARD  L.  HOLMES,  M.  D.,  Secretary. 

THOS    N.  BOND,    Treasurer. 

DR.  PHILIP  ADOLPHUS,  M.  D  ,  Superintendent. 
13 


CHICAGO    ERRING    WOMAN'S     REFUGE 
FOR  REFORM. 

5024  INDIANA  AVE. 

Objects:  "The  relief,  protection,  care  and  refor- 
mation of  such  erring  females  as  may  voluntarily 
place  themselves  under  its  care,  or  may  be  so  placed 
by  their  parents,  guardians,  or  by  any  municipal 
corporation,  or  otherwise  according  to  law." 

The  28th  annual  report  shows  199  girls  cared  for 
during  the  year,  a  daily  average  of  86.  Of  these, 
92  left,  returning  to  friends;  13  are  self-supporting, 
10  went  to  other  institutions,  and  four  returned  to 
their  former  life.  Of  the  total  number  admitted,  71 
were  1 6  years  old  or  under,  50  were  between  1 6  and 
20,  and  20  were  over  20.  During  the  year  24  in- 
fants were  cared  for,  16  being  born  in  the  Home; 
four  of  these  were  adopted,  4  died,  and  6  were  taken 
by  the  mothers,  leaving  10  on  hand  in  charge  of 
their  mothers. 

Of  the  girls  in  the  Home  at  the  end  of  the  last 
fiscal  year,  1892-93,  one  was  admitted  in  1883,  one 
in  '86,  three  in  '88,  four  in  '89,  nine  in  '90,  22  in 
'91,  and  the  remainder  during  1892.  The  desire  is 
to  have  them  stay  not  less  than  one  year. 

The  receipts  for  the  year  ending  Feb.  i,  1894, 
were  $12,487.51;  expenditures,  $12,667.12.  The 
support  is  from  rents,  $8,967.13;  city  fines,  $2,740; 
work  by  inmates,  $788;  donations, $2, 781 ;  and  board, 
$1,853.  The  society  owns  its  own  home,  besides  a 
block  of  stores  southeast  corner  Indiana  Ave.  and 
3ist  St.  and  its  former  Home.  It  has  no  paid  so- 
licitors. Its  religious  affiliations  are  Protestant,  as 

19 


CHICAGO   ERRING  WOMAN'S    REFUGE  2 1 

its  charter  provides  that  the  Board  of  Managers 
shall  include  not  less  than  one  member  of  each  Prot- 
estant church  in  Chicago. 

MRS.  L.  B    DOUD,  President. 

MRS.  E.  O.  F.  ROLER,  Treasurer. 

HELEN  M.  WOODS,  Superintendent. 

MRS.  E.  J.  WIGGING,  Corresponding  Secretary. 

MRS.   C.  G.  SMITH,  Recording  Secretary. 


CHARITY  HOSPITAL. 

2407  DEARBORN  St . 

Object:  "To  give  medical  and  surgical  care  to 
destitute  sick,  free  of  charge. "  The  hospital  is  con- 
ducted in  a  rented  three-story  private  residence.  It 
can  accommodate  some  twenty  patients.  It  is  in 
charge  of  a  lady  superintendent  with  assistants. 
The  operations  and  prescriptions  are  made  with  the 
aid  of  the  students  of  the  Post  Graduate  College, 
who,  after  the  manner  of  clinics,  pay  a  fee  for  the 
privilege.  These  fees  and  voluntary  contributions 
support  the  enterprise. 


CHICAGO     EXCHANGE    FOR      WOMAN'S 
WORK. 

130  WABASH  AVE. 

Object:  "To  provide  a  depot  for  the  reception 
and  sale  of  any  marketable  article  which  a  woman 
can  make  in  her  own  home,  or  any  valuable  article 
which  her  necessities  oblige  her  to  dispose  of, 
thereby  assisting  a  needy  woman  to  turn  to  personal 
profit  whatever  useful  talent  she  may  possess.  To 
develop  a  spirit  of  healthy  independence,  to  help 
women  who  are  striving  to  help  themselves. 

"The  association  is  composed  of  ladies  and  gentle- 
men who  subscribe  .$5.00  a  year.  It  is  a  philanthropy 
rather  than  a  charity." 

THE    FIFTEENTH    ANNUAL    REPORT    FOR    1893   SHOWS: 


RECEIPTS. 
In  Bank  March  i,  1893  i 
Membership  subscriptions 

3.994-07 
565  oo 

OUTLAY. 
Rent  

..«  9,209.98 
3,733  93 

Depositors'   dues  
Sales  of  cake 

92=;.  oo 

Janitors  

529.00 
1,983  21 

Sales  of  fruit  

1,853.17 

Paid  depositors  

..    22,067.52 
.    50,635  92 

Extra  commission 

2,336.09 

Interest  
Receipts  —  Lunch  Room.  .  .  . 
Miscellaneous  

225.00 
59,694.60 
1,390.01 

In  Bank  

720  .  02 

Total  1 

S92,  306.  68 

Total  outlay  

..  $92,306.  6g 

ASSETS. 

Cash  on  hand  March  i,  1894 $  720.02 

Bonds 5,000.00 

Furniture,  etc 2, 1 27. 57 

The  Exchange  has  thus  paid  $22,067.52  to  its 
consignors,  needy  but  self-supporting  women,  for 
work  in  its  different  departments. 

The  only  source  of  revenue    is    from  the    ten  per 


EXCHANGE  FOR  WOMAN'S  WORK  23 

cent  commission  charged  for  the  sale  of    goods,  .the 
five  dollar  each  from    upwards    of  100    annual    sub- 
scribers, and  the  consignors'  annual  fee  of  one  dollar. 
No  solicitors  are  employed,  no  buildings  are  owned, 
and  there  are  no  religious  affiliations. 
1  MRS.  JOHN  B.  LYON,  President. 
MesdamesH.  T.  N.    PICKERING,    NEWTON    LULL,    A. 
COURTNEY  CAMPBELL,  Vice- Presidents. 

Miss  KATE  GERTS.  Recording  Secretary. 

MRS.  CLINTON  J.  WARREN,    Miss  IDA  M.  MORRIS, 
and  Miss  IDA  KING,  Corresponding  Secretaries. 


CHICAGO   HOME  FOR  THE  FRIENDLESS. 

1926  WABASH  AVE. 

Kindergarten. 
Burr  Mission. 

Object:  "Founded  in  1858  as  a  Protestant  insti- 
tution to  afford  protection  and  employment  or  assist- 
ance to  worthy  destitute  women  and  children  until 
other  homes  and  means  of  support  can  be  secured 
to  them."  "It  supplies  shelter,  food  and  clothing 
to  worthy  applicants  irrespective  of  creed,  color  or 
nationality,  helps  women  to  obtain  employment, 
cares  for  homeless  children  until  their  mothers  pro- 
cure work  and  are  enabled  to  provide  for  them,  and 
receives  women  and  children  in  transit  through  the 
city  who  by  accident  or  emergency  find  themselves 
in  need. " 

During  the  past  twelve  years  its  inmates  have  num- 
bered 25,000.  During  1893  the  number  admitted  was 
1,291  women  and  1,361  children,  making  a  total  of 
2,652.  Of  those,  1,741  were  Protestants,  811  Roman 
Catholics,  3  Greek  Catholics,  and  97  Jews.  Homes 
were  provided  for  53  children;  67  were  surrendered  to 
the  Home.  The  Home  conducts  within  its  walls  a 
graded  free  school,  endowed  by  Jonathan  Burr,  for 
children  in  the  Home  and  scholars  from  without, 
which  enrolled  during  the  year  250  pupils,  with  an 
average  daily  attendance  of  30. 

A  Kindergarten  School  is  provided  for  the  smaller 
children  in  the  Home. 

24 


26  CHICAGO)  HOME;   FOR  THE  FRIENDLESS 

BURR  MISSION    FREE    CHAPEL    (unsectarian),  23rd  ST. 

AND   WESTERN   AVE. 

It  was  founded  by  Jonathan  Burr  in  1867,  and  is 
under  the  control  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the 
Home  for  the  Friendless.  It  employs  a  chaplain 
for  religious  services,  maintains  a  Sunday  school,  a 
day  school  free  to  the  poor  children  of  the  neigh- 
borhood, and  a  reading  room  for  evening  use  of 
men  and  boys.  It  enrolled  during  1891  105  pupils, 
63  girls  and  49  boys,  with  an  average  daily  attend- 
ance of  58. 

The  expenses  for  1893  were:  For  the  Home, 
$25,938.95;  the  Home  school,  $1,443.06;  the  Burr 
Mission,  $3,863.16;  total,  $31,240.17.  The  receipts 
for  1893  were,  from  endowments  $30,127.17,  and  do- 
nations, $1,188.76.  No  solicitors  are  employed.  The 
Home  owns  its  buildings  and  grounds;  has  received 
gifts  and  bequests  from  Jonathan  Burr,  George 
Smith,  Henry  Hobart  Taylor  and  John  Crerar,  Mrs. 
Louisa  Haddock,  all  of  Chicago. 

Its  officers  are  a  president,  vice-president,  treas- 
urer and  secretary,  and  a  board  of  managers  consist- 
ing of  ladies  from  each  Protestant  and  Hebrew  de- 
nomination. 

MR.  A.  C.  BARTLETT,  President. 

MR.     F.  D.  GRAY,   Vice-President. 

Mr.  W.  C.  NICHOLS,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  CHARLES  GILBERT  WHEELER,  Recording  Sec- 
retary. 

MRS.    W.  C.  NICHOLS,     Corresponding    Secretary. 

Miss  ALMA  Z.  REXFORD,  Matron  and  Superin- 
tendent. 


CHICAGO  HOME  FOR  THE  FRIENDLESS  27 

AN  ILLUSTRATIVE  CASE  OF  HOME  FOR  THE  FRIENDLESS. 
In  1892  a  father  left  his  motherless  children  at 
the  Home,  he  being  sick  and  compelled  to  seek  the 
care  of  a  hospital.  He  died,  and  so  the  orphans, 
aged  eight  and  ten,  after  a  year's  stay  in  the  Home, 
were  placed  out  with  a  farni3r,  who  wrote  the  fol- 
lowing letter: 

"Sterling,  North  Dakota,  July  29,   1894. 
"MR.  JOHN  VISHER. 

"My  Dear  Sir: — The  children  selected  and  sent 
out  by  you,  now  three  months  ago,  are  both  growing 
like  weeds,  are  as  happy  as  kings  and  queens,  have 
good  color,  eat  and  sleep  well,  and  are  as  chub- 
by as  can  be.  Everything  is  novel  to  them.  It  to^k 
them  a  long  time  to  learn  to  look  away  off  to  see 
anything, for  you  know  Dakota  is  a  land  of  magnif- 
icent distances.  Paul  rides  his  pony  every  chance 
he  gets,  and  gives  him  his  oats.  Frances  feeds  some 
lambs  out  of  a  bottle  and  feels  big,  I  tell  you.  Paul 
goes  out  with  me  after  hay.  He  says  he  likes  to 
tread  it  down.  They  like  the  sheep  and  lambs. 
Each  has  one  which  they  call  their  own.  So  you 
see  they  are  adapting  themselves  to  their  new  life 
very  readily.  They  are  a  good  deal  of  company, 
and  we  like  to  see  them  run  and  play  and  enjoy 
themselves;  but  I  tell  you  it  kept  my  wife  humming 
for  a  good  while  to  get  them  clothes  made,  as  we 
had  nothing  in  their  line  on  hand.  She  has  them 
now  all  fixed  up  nice  and  clean.  It  would  do  you 
good  to  see  them.  Frances  is  quite  a  help  about 
the  house,  and  they  both  save  us  a  good  many 
steps.  Very  truly,  H.  S. " 


CHICAGO  FLOWER  MISSION. 

ATHENAEUM  BUILDING. 

Object:  To  distribute  bouquets  and  flowers 
among  the  sick  in  hospitals  and  elsewhere. 

The  Flower  Mission  began  its  work  in  1874  in 
Unity  Church  parlors;  ever  since  it  has  enjoyed  the 
free  hospitality  of  the  Athenaeum,  its  work  being 
conducted  on  undenominational  and  purely  philan- 
thropic lines.  Branch  societies  are  organized  in  the 
suburban  towns,  and  from  these  and  the  country  at 
large  baskets  and  boxes  of  flowers  are  sent  to  it, 
and  every  Wednesday  morning  made  up  into  bou- 
quets by  the  ladies  of  the  Mission.  During  the 
season  of  last  year,  from  the  middle  of  May  to  the 
middle  of  October,  16,568  bouquets,  161  boxes  and 
89  baskets  of  flowers  were  distributed,  principally 
among  the  hospitals  of  the  city.  The  entire  ex- 
pense of  this  work  was  $80.15,  tne  express  compa- 
nies carrying  free  of  charge. 

The  Carriage  Fund. — This  is  a  special  feature, 
devoted  to  the  giving  of  rides  to  convalescents 
at  hospitals.  The  average  annual  expenditure  for 
this  is  $70,  for  which  345  persons  are  given  a  drive 
through  the  parks  in  phaetons.  The  Mission  de- 
pends on  voluntary  donations,  has  no  solicitors  or 
other  paid  officers  or  endowments. 

Mrs.  Robert  B.  Duvall,  President;  Miss  Harriet 
Porter,  Secretary;  Miss  Anna  Newell,  Treasurer. 

28 


CHICAGO  HOSPITAL  FOR    WOMEN    AND 
CHILDREN. 

CORNER  ADAMS  AND  PAULINA  STS. 
Dispensary. 
School  for  Nurses. 
Clinics. 

"The  objects  of  the  corporation  shall  be  to  pro- 
vide (i)  medical  and  surgical  aid,  by  women  phy- 
sicians, for  women  and  children;  (2)  to  assist  wom- 
en physicians  by  clinical  and  other  instruction  in 
a  more  thorough  preparation  for  the  practice  of  their 
profession;  (3)  to  train  nurses  for  the  better  care  of 
the  sick  and  wounded. " 

Classes  of  cases  admitted  are  women  for  confine- 
ment, women  and  children  for  operations,  women 
and  children  with  any  disease  not  contagious  or  in- 
curable. 

The  following  is  the  record  of  patients  treated 
during  the  two  years  ending  March  i,  1893: 

Number  of  patients  in  the  house  March  1,  1891...  50 

"      admitted 945 

"      treated  in  the  dispensary 4,123 

"      visited  at  their  homes 1,19(5 


Total 6,314 

CLASSIFICATION    OF  CASES   IN   THE   HOUSE. 

Gynaecological 317 

Obstetrical 105 

Medical,  adults 279 

Medical,  children 129 

Surgical,  adults (>2 

Surgical,  children 29 

Diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear 24 

Total 945 

29 


CHICAGO   HOSPITAL   FOR  WOMEN  3! 

Of  the  317  patients  treated  in  the  gynaecological 
department  228  left  the  hospital  well,  62  were 
improved,  18  were  unimproved  and  9  died. 

Of  the  279  patients  treated  in  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment 170  recovered,  52  were  improved,  27  were 
discharged  in  the  same  condition,  and  thirty  died. 

Three  adult  surgical  cases  were  unimproved,  and  56 
were  discharged  well  or  improved.  In  the  surgical 
department  for  children  3  died,  26  were  discharged 
well  or  improved. 

THE   SCHOOL   FOR  NURSES. 

The  following  are  the  statistics  of  the  School  for 
Nurses  from  March  i,  1891,  to  March  i,  1893: 

Number  of  nurses  in  house  March  1,  1891 16 

Entered  school  since  that  time 30 

Graduated 19 

Finished  their  course " 14 

Nurses  in  house  March  1,  1893 I'l 

Applications  to  enter  the  school 2(j 

The  Dispensary. — Connected  with  the  Hospital 
is  a  free  Dispensary,  which  is  open  every  day  in 
the  week,  except  Sunday,  from  i  to  3  o'clock  P.  M. 
This  is  under  the  care  of  the  Dispensary  physicians, 
each  in  turn  devoting  one  afternoon  a  week  to  the 
worthy  poor.  A  small  charge  is  made  for  medicines. 

Clinics. — The  hospital  also  has  classes  for  women 
physicians,  giving  them  hospital  experience  and 
practical  object  lessons  in  surgery  and  medicines. 

Since  the  opening,  the  hospital  has  treated  more 
than  20,000  patients,  and  it  graduates  yearly  a  c'as  ; 
of  20  nurses  who  take  a  two  years'  "course  of  tiaiu- 
ing." 


32        CHICAGO   HOSPITAL   FOR  WOMEN   AND    CHILDREN 
RECEIPTS   FROM   MARCH,   1892,    TO   MARCH,    1893. 

Cash  oil  hand  March,  1892 $  1  <)<).<><) 

from  private  patients 4,!)lS8.()o 

ward  patients 3,1)27.54 

clinic  tickets 1x5.00 

nurses'   services 9<j.<M) 

nurses'  registry 28.00 

contributions 4,191.37 

endowments 2,750.00 


Total f  10,270  <;r> 

Disbursements f  10,049. 05 

BOARD    OF    MANAGERS. 

MRS.  OTTO  H.   MATZ,    President. 

MRS.  MC-GREGOR  ADAMS  and  MRS.  I.  N.  CAMP. 
Vice- Presidents. 

MRS.  HENRY  WILKINSON,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  GEORGE  OBERNE,  Secretary. 

MRS.  J.   C.  HILTON. 

DR.  MARY  HARRIS  THOMPSON,  Central  Music  Hall, 
Gynoecologist  and  Head  Physician  and  Surgeon. 

CHICAGO  HOME  FOR   INCURABLES. 

ELLIS  AVE.  ,  COR.  56™  St. 

Object:  "To  furnish  the  incurable  sick  a  home." 
The  Home  accommodates  130  persons — its  maximum 
capacity — males  as  well  as  females.  It  is  supported 
entirely  by  endowments.  It  owns  spacious  buildings 
and  grounds;  has  no  solicitors  and  no  religious  affil- 
iations. 

H.  N.  Higinbotham,  President;  Byron  L.  Smith, 
Treasurer. 


CHICAGO  FOUNDLINGS'  HOME. 

114  S.  Woou  ST. 

Objects:  To  care  for  mothers  and  babies  free  of 
charge. 

During  the  year  1893,  505  different  inmates  were 
cared  for,  of  which  number  258  were  infants.  196 
were  accompanied  by  the  mothers,  who  are  allowed 
to  remain  until  the  adoption  of  their  children,  or 
until  places  are  provided  where  they  can  work  with 
them.  None  are  admitted  for  a  less  time  than  five 
weeks. 

Mortality  of  infants,  14  per  cent.  Adoptions,  34 
in  number.  Total  number  of  infants  admitted  since 
the  beginning  of  the  work  in  Jan.  1871,  5,891. 
-Mothers,  2,373.  Total  number  of  adoptions,  1,379. 
The  Home  is  sustained  by  voluntary  contributions. 
It  employs  no  solicitor.  It  owns  its  buildings  free 
from  incumbrance. 

Amount  expended  during  1893,  $5,497.68.  The 
religious  affiliations  of  the  Home  are  Protestant, 
but  it  does  not  affiliate  with  any  particular  one  of  its 
sects.  There  is  no  Board  of  Managers.  Dr.  George 
E.  Shipman  was  its  founder,  and  until  the  time  of 
his  death,  Jan.  19,  1893,  its  superintendent.  Sub- 
sequently his  wife  was  elected  superintendent,  and 
his  daughter  secretary. 

Visiting  day,  Tuesday  of  each  week.  Hours  from 
u  A.  M.  to  4  P.  M. 

MRS.  FANNIE  E.  SHIPMAN,  Superintendent. 
Miss  FRANCIS  C.  SHIPMAN,  Secretary. 
33 


CHICAGO  ORPHAN  ASYLUM. 

2228  MICHIGAN  AVE. 

[Incorporated  in  1849.] 

Objects:  "The  protecting,  relieving,  educating 
of,  and  providing  means  of  support  and  maintenance 
for  orphan  and  destitute  children. " 

The  founding  of  this  asylum,  the  oldest  in  the 
city,  dates  from  the  cholera  epidemic  in  1849,  when 
many  little  children  were  bereft,  of  care  and 
support  through  the  death  of  their  parents.  During 
these  forty-five  years  it  has  furnished  protection  and 
training  to  more  than  5,000  children. 

December  i,  1892,  the  asylum  had  218  children. 
During  the  year  421  have  applied  for  admittance; 
of  this  number,  229  were  received  (of  boys,  139; 
girls,  90).  During  the  same  period  217  have  been 
dismissed,  leaving  at  the  present  time  230  inmates. 
The  average  for  the  year  has  been  the  largest  it  has 
ever  had,  viz.,  227.  Catholics,  92;  Protestants,  302; 
Jews,  26. 

The  ages  of  the  applicants  were:  Under  two  years, 
74;  between  two  and  seven  years,  190;  between  seven 
and  twelve  years,  154;  over  twelve  years,  3.  Of  the 
children  admitted,  71  have  been  deserted  by  fathers, 
6  deserted  by  mothers,  5  deserted  by  both  parents; 
8  have  insane  mothers,  n  are  orphans,  and  115 
half-orphans.  Of  the  children  dismissed,  19  were 
taken  by  parents  or  friends,  n  were  adopted  into 
homes,  i  sent  to  the  Industrial  School  of  the  Home 
for  the  Friendless,  and  9  died. 

There  are  now  124  children  in  attendance  at  the 
Moseley  School,  and  94  have  been  enrolled  during 

35 


36  CHICAGO  ORPHAN   ASYLUM 

the  year  in  the  home  school,  or  kindergarten—  a 
primary  grade — the  average  attendance  being  49. 

The  support  is  from  investments,  board  and  do- 
nations solicited  by  the  trustees  through  circular 
letters,  dispensing  with  paid  solicitors. 

The  receipts  during  1893  were:  $722.48  from  do- 
nations, $8,534.06  from  board,  $4.000  from  bequests, 
and  $14,473.29  from  investments,  and  $7,500  from 
loans  paid  in.  The  disbursements  were  $21,050  in 
loans  and  investments,  and  $22,679.82  in  current 
expenses. 

The  report  says:  "Many  very  pleasing  and  touch- 
ing incidents  have  transpired  during  the  year,  one 
in  particular,  where  two  sisters,  adopted  by  differ- 
ent parties  when  they  were  very  young,  their  homes 
widely  separated,  and  both  now  married,  met  here 
(by  appointment)  for  the  first  time  after  this  long 
lapse  of  years.  These  reunions  have  been  of  peculiar 
interest  to  the  Board  of  Ladies,  knowing  all  the 
parties  as  they  did  so  well,  and  the  uniform  testi- 
mony to  kindly  care  has  been  very  gratifying." 

AN   ILLUSTRATIVE    CASE. 

Many  years  ago  a  puny  waif,  a  foundling,  drifted 
into  the  Home.  He  was  small,  sickly  and  crippled 
— had  to  submit  to  three  severe  operations,  but  was 
brave  and  cheerful  and  grew  well  and  strong.  When 
of  age  a  friend  of  the  asylum  offered  to  pay  his  tu- 
ition through  the  Manual  Training  School.  He 
finished  the  course,  and  within  two  years  after  grad- 
uation, was  earning  $90  a  month. 


38  CHICAGO   ORPHAN    ASYLUM 

NORMAN  WILLIAMS,  President,  Board  of  Trustees. 
JOHN  M.  CLARK,  Vice-President. 
FREDERICK  B.  TUTTLE,  Secretary. 
WILLIAM  D.  PRESTON,  Treasurer. 

BOARD   OF    TRUSTEES. 

WILLIAM  A.  FULLER,  MYRON  L.   PEARCE, 

D.  W.  IRWIN,  CARYL  YOUNG, 

J.  J.  GLESSNER,  BYRON  L.  SMITH, 

CHAS.  L.  HUTCHINSON,       A.  A.  SPRAGUE, 
CHAS.  F.  GREY,  A.  C.  BARTLETT, 

MARTIN  A.   RYERSON. 

OFFICERS    OF    THE    BOARD    OF    DIRECTORS. 

MRS.  NORMAN  T.  GASSETTE,  President. 
MRS.  GEORGE  W.  DARROW,  Vice-President. 
MRS.  JAMES  A.  BURHANS,  Recording  Secretary. 
Miss  SARAH  M.  HORTON,  Corresponding  Secretary. 
MRS.  JOHN  B.   SKINNER,  Treasurer. 
Miss  C.  M.  SHAW,  Matron. 

Chicago  Mechanics'  Institute. 
139  E.   Madison  Street. 

The  institute  was  founded  in  1843.  The  annual 
average  of  pupils  is  78.  They  are  the  children  of 
indigent  mechanics,  or  orphans,  the  purpose  being 
to  make  of  them  thorough  master  mechanics,  skilled 
in  all  forms  of  technical  training.  The  cost  is  about 
$1,000;  the  support  is  from  the  income  of  the  estate 
of  Azel  Peck  — leased  real  estate  valued  at  $45,000. 

GEO.  C.  PRUSSING,  President. 

JOHN  WILKINSON,   ist  Vice-President. 

J.  W.  HOSMER,  2d  Vice-President. 

AMOS  GRANNIS,  Treasurer. 

JOSEPH  SILVERS,  Librarian  and  Secretary. 


CHICAGO  NURSERY  AND  HALF-ORPHAN 
ASYLUM. 

855  N.    HALSTED. 

[Incorporated  1860.] 

"Its  object  shall  be  the  care  and  maintenance  of 
the  children  of  poor  women,  for  the  purpose  of  en- 
abling them  to  find  employment;  also  the  care  and 
maintenance  of  such  children  as  are  deprived  by 
death,  or  other  cause,  of  either  parent.  Girls  are 
admitted  under  12  years,  boys  under  TI  years.  Girls 
are  dismissed  at  14  years,  boys  at  12  years  of  age." 

At  its  first  organization  the  institution  was  a  day 
nursery,  charging  5  cents  for  the  care,  by  day, of  chil- 
dren whose  mothers  went  out  to  work 

Active  membership  in  the  society  is  open  to  any 
person  contributing  to  its  funds,  regardless  of  de- 
nominational connections.  The  Board  of  Managers, 
elected  annually  by  the  members, consists  of  not  less 
than  nine  ladies.  The  33rd  annual  report  (1893) 
shows: 


Average  number  of  children. 
Average  number  of  inmates.. 

Children  died 

Average  number  in  Nursery   . 
Average  number  in  School . . . 

Children  left  Asylum 

Articles  cut  out 

Articles  sewed 

Stockings  darned  by  class.   .. 
Work  by  class 


im 

135 

143 

H 

32 

107 

142 

5-732 

5.752 

3,626 

3,368 


6 

49 

116 

139 

2.299 

7,666 

4-943 

6,615 


1892 

1 68 

174 

19 

54 

116 

161 

2,002 

16,523 

5,223 

5,092 


1-9 

192 

9 

72 

135 

159 

2.914 

7, on 

6,125 

6,750 


Cash  donations  .. 
Board  of  inmates 
Investments.. . 


THE    RECEIPTS    WERE: 


$5,823 
2,678 
9,149 


5.823 
4,678 
7,599 


4,409 
4,501 
9,492 


4400 
4501 
9,492 


Total 819,650       818,091       918,403      818,152 

39 


NURSERY   AND   HALF-ORPHAN    ASYLUM  4! 

Securities  held Si 38, 675 

Furnishing    funds 8,000 

Bed  endowment  fund 4,300 

The  buildings  are  owned;  there  are  no  solicitors 
employed. 

AN    ILLUSTRAT1VK    CASE. 

Maggie  P.  was  placed  in  the  asylum  at  the  age 
of  ten  by  her  mother,  a  poor  widow,  who  paid  Si.oo 
a  week  towards  her  maintenance.  When  the  child 
was  fourteen,  her  mother, still  unable  to  assume  the 
charge,  requested  the  Board  to  place  her  into  a  private 
home  where,  in  exchange  for  her  services,  she  is 
attending  school, with  a  view  to  fitting  herself  for  a 
teacher  and  becoming  the  support,  not  only  of  her- 
self, but  also  of  her  mother  in  her  old  age. 

MRS.  WM.  C.  Gounv,  President. 

MRS.  ABIJAH  KE\T,  First  Vice-President. 

MRS.   H.  J.   BERRY,  Second  Vice-President. 

MRS.  FRANKLIN  H.   BECKWITH,    Secretary. 

Miss  E.  F.  STILLWELL,  Assistant  Secretary. 

Miss  S.  E.  HURLBUT,  Treasurer. 

Miss  E.  M.  FULLER,  Matron. 


CHICAGO  RELIEF  AND  AID  SOCIETY. 

51-53  LASALLE  STREET. 
[Incorporated  by  special  charter  1857.] 

Endowed  Charities. 

Relief  Department. 

Branch  Offices— North,  South,  West  Sides. 

Wood  Yards— North  and  South  Sides. 

Objects:  Charter — Sec.  2.  The  objects  of  this 
corporation  shall  be  strictly  of  an  eleemosynary  na- 
ture; they  shall  be  to  provide  a  permanent,  efficient, 
and  practical  mode  of  administering  and  distribut- 
ing the  private  charities  of  the  city  of  Chicago;  to 
examine  and  establish  the  necessary  means  for  ob- 
taining full  and  reliable  information  of  the  condi- 
tion and  wants  of  the  poor  of  said  city,  and  putting 
into  practical  and  efficient  operation  the  best  sys- 
tem of  relieving  and  preventing  want  and  pauper- 
ism therein. 

Constitution — /.  In  carrying  out  the  objects  of 
this  society  as  indicated  in  the  act  of  incorporation, 
it  shall  be  the  end  aimed  at,  not  only  to  afford  tem- 
porary relief  to  the  destitute,  but  also  by  rendering 
timely  counsel  and  assistance  to  deserving  but  in- 
digent persons,  to  place  them  above  the  necessity  of 
aid;  and  without  positively  limiting  itself  to  any 
one  class  in  the  distribution  of  its  charities,  the 
society  shall  discriminate  in  favor  of  those  in  whom 
habits  of  temperance,  industry  and  thrift,  give 
promise  of  permanent  benefit  from  the  aid  furnished, 
and  shall  not  embrace  in  the  sphere  of  its  operations 
such  as  are  the  proper  subjects  for  the  poor-house, 
or  for  the  action  of  the  county  officers. 


CHICAGO    RELIEF    AND    AIL)    SOCIETY.  43 


44  RELIEF  AND   AID  SOCIETY 

Endowed  Charities. 

In  answer  to  a  call  signed  by  Wirt  Dexter,  presi- 
dent of  the  "Christian  Union,"  J.  L.  Reynolds,  pres- 
ident of  the  "Citizens'  Relief,"  and  Dwight  L. 
Moody,  president  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  a  meeting 
was  held  Nov.  n,  1867,  and  a  consolidation  effected 
of  these  societies  and  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid, 
the  organization  of  the  latter  antedating  the  others, 
and  the  objects  being  similar. 

At  the  time  of  the  great  Chicago  fire  in  1871,  the 
Relief  and  Aid  Society,  by  common  consent  as  well 
as  by  formal  action  of  the  Common  Council,  was 
entrusted  with  the  disbursement  of  the  relief  funds 
and  food  and  clothing  which  poured  in  from  all 
parts  of  our  country  and  the  civilized  world — more 
than  $7,000,000.  As  a  large  part  of  the  great  dis- 
tress could  be  relieved  only  through  asylums  and 
hospitals,  and  as  these  also  were  either  destroyed 
or  impoverished  by  the  fire,  or  inadequate  for  meet- 
ing the  extraordinary  demands  suddenly  made  on 
them,  the  management  of  the  Relief  and  Aid  Society 
appropriated  $432,900  to  the  following  institutions: 


Chicago    Nursery  &    Half    Or- 
phan Asylum  

$25,000 
30,000 
28,000 

10,000 
40.000 
lti.500 
15000 
18.001) 
30,000 
12,000 
30,000 

Deaconess'  Hospital         

25,000 
10,000 
25,000 

25,000 
20,000 

8,000 
15,000 
50,000 

S432,9«X) 

Chicago  Foundlings'  Home.. 
Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  
Women's  and  Children's  Hos 
pital      ...    . 

St.  Joseph's  Hospital  
St.  Luke's  Hospital  

Chicago  Protestant  Orphan  Asy- 
lum         

Uhlich  Orphan  Asylum  
Western      Seamen's    Friend 
Society   ....           

Mercy  Hospital  

House  of  the  Good  Shepherd.. 
Scammon  Hospital  
Alexian  Bros.'  Hospital  
St.  Joseph's  Orphan  Asylum.  .  . 
Newsboys'  &  Bootblacks'  Home 
Home  for  the  Friendless.  .. 

Western  Seamen's  Bethel  .  .  . 
The  Old  People's  Home  

Total  .  . 

The  understanding  was  that  in  consideration  of 
the  aid  thus  bestowed  they  would  co-operate  with 
the  Relief  and  Aid  Society  in  the  work  of  caring 


RELIEF   AND    AID    SOCIETY 


45 


for  the  city's  poor,  and  make  no  discrimination    on 
account  of  race,  nationality,  or  religious  belief. 

This  agreement  thus  to  co-operate  was  formulated 
into  a  definite  contract  in  perpetuity  with  regard  tc 
the  following: 

HOSPITALS,    ETC. 


NAMES. 

Total  current 
expenses  first 
few  months 
after  fire. 

Amounts  for 
which  it  ob- 
tained beds. 

c«* 
I«^ 

•Su." 

•s*s 

oU< 

Persons  cared 
for  '93,  sent  by 
C.R.  &  A.soc. 

$18,200 
25,000 
20,000 
15,000 
40,000 
28,000 
30,000 
25,000 
30,400 

18 
25 
20 
15 
40 
28 
30 
25 

1 
12 
23 
10 
18 
95 
653 

Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary  

«    1,76075 
1,32600 
15,742  34 
2,37399 
2,306  80 
54285 

Hahnemann,  or  Scammon  Hospital  

St.  Joseph's  Hospital     .             

S24.051  73 

$231,600 

The  cases  helped  by  these  charities  are  registered 
at  the  central  office  of  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid 
Society. 

Branch  Offices— North,  South  and  West  Sides. 

Upon  the  union  of  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid 
Society  with  the  Charity  Organization  Society  in 
1887,  the  branch  offices  and  wood  yard  of  the  C.  O. 
S.  were  to  be  assumed  by  the  former,  together  with 
its  general  work.  These  branch  offices  are  continued 
during  the  winter,  the  objects  conserved  being 
mainly  to  facilitate  consultation  and  intercommuni- 
cation among  the  benevolent  public  and  reference 
to  suitable  channels  for  relief. 


46  RELIEF  AND   AID    SOCIETY 

The  C.  R.  &  A.  S.  Wood  Yards. 

North    Side,  Roberts    and  East  Superior  Streets, 
One  Block  South  of  Chicago  Avenue  Bridge. 
Telephone  North  415. 

South  Side,  Armour  Ave.  and  34th  St. 

Object:  "To  furnish  temporary  employment  in 
an  emergency  to  able-bodied  men  as  a  labor  test." 

The  method  pursued  is  for  the  Society  to  pur- 
chase wood  and  kindling  in  large  quantities  and  set 
able-bodied  men,  as  above  described,  saw- 
ing and  splitting  it,  and  then  delivering  it  at  market 
prices  to  customers  all  over  the  city.  Single  men 
on  the  performance  of  a  given  stint  receive  tickets 
good  for  a  meal  or  lodging  at  restaurants  and  lodg- 
ing houses  in  the  city;  married  men  receive  an 
equivalent  in  cash.  The  number  of  men  thus  aided 
is  given  as  follows: 


1891 

1394 

Number  of  men  given  work  at  wood  yard  

872 

4,831 

Number  of  tickets  for  meals  and  lodgings  given  in  payment  for 
work     

6,337 

21,210 

Cash  paid  for  work  to  men  with  families            

84  19 

$7,460 

Number  of  men  furnished  with  other  employment  
Number  of  tickets  for  meals  and  lodgings  given  to   invalid  men 
or  emergency  cases  issued  from  central  office.            

1,142 
2,396 

152 

1,608 

The  receipts  from  the  sales  of  the  wood  yards' 
product  were  $19,856.77. 

Total  expenditures  on  account  of  the  wood  yards, 
$28,742.69,  showing  a  balance  of  disbursement  of 
$8,885.92  above  receipts. 


48 


RELIEF    AND   AID   SOC1ETT/ 


Receipts  and  Expenditures  by  Superindentent. 

1891 

1894 

$10,701 

$43  326.  69 

Merchandise     .... 

2,149 

10,086.58 

302 

8240 

Surgical  appliances              

31 

70.21 

Interments  

740 

661  04 

Transportation   R.   R   

454 

881  20 

Payroll     

6,513 

15,371.85 

11,486 

28,742  69 

Total... 

$34.593 

$104.17820 

Aged,  sick  or  infirm  men  with  families  aided  .         .... 

1891 

1,115 
2,430 

675 
970 
875 
380 
765 

7,210 

1894 

1,946 
4.395 
2,960 
1,807 
1,371 
305 
463 

13,247 

Aged,  sick  or  infirm  widows  with  families  

Deserted  women  with  families           

Aged,  sick  or  infirm  single  men  

Tola  1         

Number  of  persons  in  families  aided  j  Adults.   .... 

3,75( 

12,87 

15,62. 

)  14,170 
>  29,595 

)  43,765 

1  Children    .. 
Total   

Number  of  families  receiving  aid  once,  4,858;    twice,  1,762;   thrice,  946;  four 
times,  287;  five  times,  117;  six  times  or  oftener,  47. 

The  support  is  from  donations  and  investments. 
The  average  annual  receipts  and  disbursements  are 
from  530,000  to  $40,000.  It  owns  some  endowments; 
has  no  religious  affiliations;  makes  no  discrimina- 
tion on  account  of  race,  creed  or  nationality;  it 
employs  no  solicitors.  Its  central  office  is  in  the  Re- 
lief Block,  51-53  La  Salle  Street, which  is  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Society  and  where  it  has  more  than 
50,000  records  of  applicants. 

The  Mayor  is  ex-officio  a  member  of  the  Board. 

HENRY  W.    KING,   President. 

ER.VEST  A.    HAMILL,  Treasurer. 

WILLIAM  H     HUIJBARD,  Secretary. 

/EXECUTIVE   COMMIT'IEE. 

T.  W.   HARVEY,   Chairman, 
A.  A.  SPRAGUE,  C    H.   S.   MIXER, 

J.  J.  GLESSNER,  JOHN  MCLAREN.    , 

C    G.  TRUSDELL,    Gen.  Supt. 


CHILDREN'S  HOME  SOCIETY. 
National  Headquarters. 

167  DEARBORN  ST.,  CHICAGO, 
ROOM    707 

Chartered  188513 
The  American  Educational  Aid  Association 


A  national  organization,  with  sixteen  state  aux- 
iliaries as  follows:  Illinois,  Iowa,  Minnesota,  Mis- 
souri, Indiana,  Wisconsin,  California,  Tennessee, 
Ohio;  Michigan,  Colorado,  S.  Dakota,  N.  Dakota, 
Nebraska,  Kansas,  New  Jersey. 

Objects:  "To  provide  approved  family  homes  for 
homeless  and  dependent  children. " 

The  Society  has  a  General  Superintendent  and 
each  State  has  a  State  Superintendent  and  several 
District  Superintendents. 

A  prominent  feature  of  the  work  of  this  Society 
is  the  Local  Boards.  There  are  more  than  1,000  of 
these  Boards  in  the  State  of  Iowa  alone.  These 
Boards  (i)  seek  homeless  children,  (2)  homes  in 
which  to  place  them,  (3)  supervise  them  in  their 
homes  to  guard  against  abuse,  (4)  receive  money, 
which  is  directly  remitted  to  the  treasurer  of  the 
State  organization. 

The  Children's  Home  Society  for  Illinois 
placed  in  homes  up  to  June  ist,  1894,  1,969  chil- 
dren, replacing  in  all  cases  of  necessity.  During 
last  year  227  children  were  placed.  The  total  number 
of  children  placed  through  its  various  state  auxil- 
iaries is  4,046. 

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CHILDREN  S    HOME    SOCIETY 


The  Society  has  an  organ  of  40  pages  in  magazine 
form,  the  Children's  Home  Finder,  the  General 
Superintendent  being  Editor-in-Chief.  The  monthly 
circulation  averages  17,000.  There  is  a  temporary 
home  for  the  use  of  Illinois  children  at  Englewood, 
the  Englewood  Infant  Nursery,  6516  Perry  Ave. , 
also  a  temporary  home  with  four  acres  of  land  at  Au- 
rora, 111. 

The  Society  congratulates  itself  upon  the  union  of 
its  work  in  Illinois  with  that  of  the  Children's  Aid 
Society.  It  is  believed  that  the  child  saving  work 
in  Illinois  will  be  carried  on  with  greatly  increased 
efficiency  because  of  this  union. 

Hereafter  the  work  of  placing  children  in  the 
State  of  Illinois  will  be  done  by  the  Children's  Aid 
Society  (see  Dage  52), the  Illinois  State  Auxiliary  of 
the  Children  .  Home  Society, and  ths  latter  Society 
will  devote  u_elf  exclusively  to  its  distinctively  na- 
tional functions.  Thus  in  Illinois  as  elsewhere  the 
state  work  is  done  by  the  State  Auxiliary. 

Contributions  and  bequests  for  national  work 
should  be  sent  to  Edward  F.  Lawrence,  resident 
director,  First  National  Bank,  Chicago,  111. 

JOHN  WOODBRIDGE, 

President. 
REV.  THOS.  GALT, 

Secretary. 
EDWARD  F.  LAWRENCE, 

Treasurer. 
REY.  JACOB  HARTMAN, 

Financial  Secretary. 
REV.  GEO.   K.   HOOVER, 

General  Superintendent. 
MRS.  M.  V. B.VAN  ARSDALE, 
Ass't.  Gen.  Supt. 
FRANK  M.  GREGG,  D.  D., 
National  Organizer. 


CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY. 

167  DEARBORN  ST.,   ROOM  712. 
(State  Auxiliary  of  the  Children's  Home  Society.) 

University  Creche,  4655  Gross  Ave. 
Englewood  Infant  Nursery,  6516   Perry  Ave. 
Aurora  Home,  Aurora,  111. 
Gushing  Free  Kindergarten, Cor.  Paulina  and 
Cornelia  Sts. 

Objects:  The  Children's  Aid  Society  was  char- 
tered in  July,  1890,  "to  improve  the  condition  of 
poor  and  destitute  children."  It  is  working  to  help 
the  children  of  the  state  of  Illinois,  socially,  intel- 
lectually and  morally. 

1.  It  finds  homes  for    homeless,   dependent    chil- 
dren, the  children  of  misfortune — the  victims  of  the 
desertion  of  one  or  both  parents,    those  whose    par- 
ents have  become    financially    embarrassed    so    that 
they  can  no  longer  support  their  children,  and  those 
who  are  half-orphans  or  who  have  lost  both  parents 
— by  placing  them  in  family  homes    to  be    cared  for 
and  trained  by    loving    hands,  and    adopted    as  the 
children  and  heirs  of  the  adoptive  parents. 

2.  It  takes  the   unmarried    mother,  the    deserted 
wife,  or  the  widow,  who  has  a  child, and  finds  house- 
work for  her  in  private  families,  where  she  can  earn 
the  support    of    both,    remaining    herself  a    worthy 
member  of  society  and  training  her  little  one  to  live 
an  honorable  life.      It  is  a  rule  of    the  society  never 
to  separate  a  mother  and  her  child  unless  it  is  abso- 
lutely necessary. 

3.  It  trains  the  children  iu    the    poor  and  needy 
districts  by  establishing  kindergartens. 

51 


52  CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY 

4.  It  organizes  the  boys  and  girls  of    ten  to  six- 
teen years  into   clubs,  furnishing    them    the    best  of 
juvenile  reading  and  the   children's    magazines,  and 
opening  to  them  the    world    of    parliamentary  regu- 
lation, of  military  control,  of    quiet    indoor   games, 
or,  through  talks,  of  the    many    wonders    all    about 
them,     teaches    the     members    to  be  gentlemen    and 
gentlewomen. 

5.  It  establishes  creches  to  furnish  at  a  nominal 
price  care  during  the  day  for    the  little    children  of 
"working  mothers  who  would  otherwise   have  to  stay 
at  home,  go  encumbered  to  their  work,  or  leave  their 
babies  to  be  looked  after   at  home  by  older  children. 

6.  It  investigates  all  cases  of  need  or  neglect  re- 
ported to  it,   and  refers  to  the  proper  societies  such 
cases  as  do  not  come  within  its  sphere  of  work. 

7.  The  society  has  in  contemplation  a  Maternity 
Hospital,     in    connection    with    which    there    shall 
be  departments  for  scientific    training  for    girls  and 
young  mothers,  in  domestic  work,  and    for  the  tem- 
porary care  of  destitute  and  homeless  children. 

The  union  of  the  Children's  Home  Society  with 
that  of  the  Children's  Aid  Society  was  consummated 
October  8th,  1894. 

The  work  formerly  done  by  the  two  Societies  for 
Illinois,  will  hereafter  be  carried  on  by  the  Chil- 
dren's Aid  Society.  All  donations  for  the  Illinois 
work  should  be  sent  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Chil- 
dren's Aid  Society  (see  page  50). 

REPORT     OF    WORK  FROM     APRIL  l6,     1893,  TO   APRIL    19, 
1894. 

Number  of  orphan  children  placed    in  perma- 
nent   homes 72 


CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY  53 

Number  of  half  orphan  children    placed    with 

their  mothers 163 

Number  of  mothers  placed  in  families ...  163 

Number  of  replaced  orphan  children 16 

Number  of  children  replaced  with  their  mothers. .    ^ 

Number  of  mothers    replaced 66 

Number  of  mothers  returned  to  friends 23 


Total  of  all  placed  during  the  year 569 

Of  the  children    placed  in    permanent    homes,  in- 
cluding the  sixteen  replaced,  there  were: 

Boys 38 

Girls 50 

The  children  are  located  as  follows: 

Boys  on    farms 18 

Girls  on    farms 10 

Children  in  professional  men's    families 4 

Children  in  families  of  merchants,  mechanics, 

deaf  and  dumb  asylum,  etc 53 

Number  of  mothers  who  have  died i 

Number  of  children  who  have    died 3 


Total  number  of  deaths 4 

FINANCIAL   REPORT  FOR  THE  YEAR  ENDING  APRIL  19,1894. 

Since  the  last  report  there  has  been  re- 
ceived   $6, 379. 39 

Bills  paid  according  to  vouchers   audited 

by  the  committee 5,716.64 


Leaving  a    cash  balance    of $655. 75 

The  sum  of  $235.50  was    received  -for    the  library 
work,  of  which  $191.76  has  been  expended. 

Contributions    for    the    kindergarten,  $528.23. 


CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY  55 

HARVEY  B.   HURD,  President. 

WM.  DEERING,  HON.    T.  C.  MACMILLAN,  JOHN  W. 
TINDALL,  Vice-Presidents. 
D.  J.  HARRIS,  Treasurer. 
H.  H.   C.  MILLER,  Attorney. 

REV.  GEORGE  K.   HOOVER   General  Superintendent. 
MRS.  GLEN  WOOD,  Secretary. 

EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE. 

HARVEY  B.  HURD,  ex-officio.     HON.  T.  C.  MACMILLAN, 
JOHN  W.  TINDALL,  PROF.  S.  R.  SMITH, 

MRS.  HENRY  P.  NEWMAN,        JOHN  A.   COLE, 

MRS.  CATHERINE  WAUGH  McCuLLOCH. 

ILLUSTRATIVE    CASES. 

"CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY.     Dear  Friends:  — 

"I  have  been  so  blessed  in  the  charge  you  intrusted 
to  me  that  I  must  write  again  and  tell  you  about 
our  dear  little  Lena. 

"She  is  now  seventeen  months  old.  She  does  not 
yet  walk,  for  the  reason  that  she  has  had  measles 
and  was  for  several  months  quite  ill.  She  is  well 
now,  and  although  a  tiny  midget,  yet  she  is  large 
enough  to  hold  us  all  in  thrall.  She  talks  some,  and 
this  morning  at  the  table  asked  for  a  second  dish  of 
oatmeal,  which  she  enjoys  very  much. 

"I  will  tell  you  truly  that  we  love  her  just  as  dearly 
as  we  did  our  own.  If  we  were  to  lose  her  now, 
our  hearts  would  be  sore  indeed. 

"I  pray  daily  that  she  may  grow  up  into  a  pure, 
noble  woman.  I  also  pray  for  strength  to  enable 
me  to  bring  her  up  in  the  way  she  should  go. 

"Now  thanking    you    for  your  kindness,  I    close. 

"Sincerely  yours, 
"March,  1894.  E.   C.  W." 


56  CHILDREN'S   AID   SOCIEfV 

DEAR  FRIENDS  : 

We  arrived  home  at  eleven  o  clock  p.  M.  Baby 
slept  well  until  five  o'clock  in  the  morning, then  she 
began  to  cry  and  kept  it  up  almost  constantly  for 
two  weeks. 

My  husband,  and  brother  and  his  wife,  who  were 
visitors,  helped  in  the  care  of  the  new  baby.  The 
four  of  us  walked  the  floor  and  did  everything  love 
could  dictate  to  soothe  and  comfort  her,  but  she  would 
not  be  comforted. 

We  sent  for  the  doctor.  He  smiled  and  said,  "It's 
her  stomach."  A  change  of  food,  with  a  little  lime 
water,  did  the  business  and  now  she  is  the  sweetest 
little  cherub  you  could  wish  to  see.  We  are  per- 
fectly charmed  with  her. 

I  feel  I  owe  you  an  apology  for  the  way  I  received 
you  at  P.  I  was  feeling  quite  ill  and  the  strain  on 
my  nerves  was  too  much  for  me.  The  sight  of  the 
little  helpless  babe,  and  the  memory  of  my  five  little 
ones  who  had  been  taken  from  my  home,  one  after 
another,  to  the  home  above  broke  my  spirit  quite 
down  and  I  could  say  nothing.  All  I  could  do  was 
to  let  the  tears  flow  and  relieve  my  hungry,  aching 
heart. 

I  want  her  exact  age,  for  children  like  to  have 
birthdays. 

As  we  love  the  precious  girlie  and  wish  to  save 
her  any  annoyance  in  future  that  may  be  avoided, 
we  wish  to  avoid  publicity,  and  so  I  request  you  to 
send  my  letters  in  a  common  envelope. 

When  any  one  asks  us  where  we  found  our  baby, 
we  say,  "God  gave  her  to  us, ''and  we  feel  that  he  did. 

Yours  truly, 
February,   1894.  M.  J.   G. 


CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY  57 

Our  little  Lula  has  become  quite  an  interesting 
girl.  She  is  quite  a  favorite  with  all  the  little  girls. 
She  goes  to  Sunday-school.  We  have  not  started 
her  to  school  yet.  She  can  read  well  for  one  of  her 
age.  She  has  read  the  first  reader  through  several 
times.  She  is  quite  hearty  and  always  ready  for  a 
romp  with  papa  when  I  come  home  at  night.  I  hope 
all  the  little  girls  you  find  homes  for  will  be  Lulas 
to  some  one  as  ours  is  to  us.  Yours  truly, . 

Willie  is  in  splendid  health.  He  has  grown.  He 
can  take  the  harness  off  a  horse,  but  is  not  large 
enough  to  put  it  on.  We  have  sold  this  place  on 
account  of  it  not  being  convenient  for  Willie  to  go 
to  school.  When  we  get  a  house  with  room  enough 
I  would  love  to  have  a  nice  little  girl.  Willie  loves 
to  be  out  with  his  papa.  Your  friend  S. 

Bennett,  111. — We  still  have  the  boy,  Ira,  and 
love  him  as  though  he  were  our  own.  He  is  a  very 
good  boy,  we  think.  Since  we  have  had  him  (three 
years)  he  has  never  been  absent  or  tardy  one  day 
from  school,  and  has  only  missed  Sunday  school 
once.  He  likes  both  and  is  very  quick  in  learn- 
ing. We  wish  you  success  in  your  work,  for  I  think 
it  is  the  noblest  work  that  is  being  done.  B . 

These  two  letters  are  from  the  foster-mothers  of 
twin  baby  boys: 

A — r,  111.— We  call  the  little  boy  Glenn.  He  is 
doing  well,  growing,  and  is  a  very  healthy  child; 
has  a  good  disposition,  and  is  a  very  bright  boy.  He 
loves  to  go  to  Sabbath-school,  and  goes  in  the  class 
with  the  other  little  children.  We  could  not  help 
loving  such  a  boy,  for  he  is  just  what  we  want. 

H — n,  111. — We  love  him  more,  if  possible,  than 
ever.  He  has  grown  to  be  such  a  fine  child — weighs 
forty-two  pounds — and  so  healthy.  We  could  not 
love  our  own  better.  I  must  tell  you  we  got  ac- 
quainted with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  B of  A— r,  111., 

the  family  that  have  the  twin  to  our  boy.     They  are 
very  fine  people.      The    boys    had  a    great    time. 


CITIZENS'    LEAGUE    OF   CHICAGO      FOR 
THE  SUPPRESSION  OF   THE  SALE  OF 
LIQUOR  TO  MINORS. 

OFFICE,   113  ADAMS  ST.,  ROOM  45. 

Object:  "To  secure,  by  all  proper  means,  the 
enforcement  of  all  laws  and  ordinances  for  the  pre- 
vention of  the  sale  of  liquors  to  minors  and  drunk- 
ards, and  also  the  enforcement  of  all  laws  and 
ordinances  to  prevent  minors  from  playing  at  games 
of  chance  or  other  games  in  saloons  in  the  city  of 
Chicago." 

THE    l6TH    ANNUAL   REPORT    FOR  1893    SHOWS: 


No.  of  Saloon  K'p's  Prosecuted  701 

Number  of  Charges 1103 

Selling  to  Minors  516 

Keeping  Disorderly  Houses...  39 

Selling  to  Drunkards 548 

Amount  of  Fines  and  Costs 

Imposed $10,753 

Held  to  Criminal  Court 106 

Precedendos  issued  in  Criminal 

Court...  fi5 


Appealed    to    yuasi    Criminal 

Court 101 

Continued  during  year    i49 

Continued  until  January,  1894..  21 

Number  Fined  by  Justice 404 

No.  Fined  in  Criminal  Court..  55 

No. of  Witnesses  Subpoenaed..  2099 

Bonds  Forfeited  14 

Nolle  Prosequied  and  Dismissed  179 


Summary  of  work  done  since  organization  (1878) 
to  1899. 


1878 

1879 

1892 

1893 

Total 

No.  of  Charges  against  Saloon  Keepers... 
Held  to  the  Grand  Jury  

241 
81 

166 
90 

1592 
158 

1103 
103 

1H442 
1884 

Fined  by  Justices  

88 

85 

581 

434 

10546 

Receipts  for  1893,  $6,420.04;  disbursements, 
$6,117.52.  The  Society  employs  a  general  agent  and 
two  assistants.  The  agents  are  vested  with  police 
powers,  but  are  not  on  the  department's  pay  roll, 
nor  does  the  Society  receive  benefits  of  fines,  these 
going  to  the  school  fund.  Its  support  is  entirely  from 
voluntary  donations. 

58 


CITIZENS'   LEAGUE  59 

The  Society  states  that  it  is  unable  with  its  pres- 
ent force  to  cover  the  entire  city  properly.  This 
would  requite  one  man  to  every  police  station,  or 
twelve  additional  agents,  an  increased  expense  of 
£10,000  a  year.  This  would  secure  the  effectual 
enforcement  of  the  law  against  the  sale  of  liquors 
to  minors  and  drunkards. 

AN    ILLUSTRATIVE    CASE. 

"Mrs.  Mary  A.,  residing  at ,  mother  of  four 

children,  aged  16,  13,  n  and  8,  came  to  the  office 
of  the  'Citizens'  League,'  and  gave  the  history  of 
the  misery  and  ruin  surrounding  their  home,  caused 
by  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquors  to  her  husband 
and  her  children.  This  case  was  investigated  by  the 
League's  agents,  and  was  found  to  be  pitiful  indeed. 
The  husband  was  a  habitual  drunkard,  spending  all 
his  money  for  intoxicating  liquor,  until  the  once 
happy  home  became  one  of  misery  and  want. 

"He  would  compel  his  children  to  go  to  the 
different  saloons  and  buy  intoxicating  liquors  for  him 
when  he  was  not  in  a  condition  to  go  himself.  And 
upon  refusal  of  the  children  to  obey  his  commands, 
they  were  severely  punished  by  him.  The  father 
was  arrested,  tried,  and  was  sent  to  the  Bridewell, 
and  four  saloon  keepers  were  fined  for  selling  liquor 
to  the  children,  each  $25.00  and  cost,  and  one  was 
held  in  addition  to  the  Criminal  Court  in  bonds  of 
$200.00." 

I.  P.  RUMSEY,  President.! 

JAMES  W.  JANNEY,  First  Vice-President. 

A.  L.  COE,  Treasurer. 

H.  J.  HAY  WARD,  General  Agent. 


LIST  OF  FREE  DISPENSARIES. 

Alexian  Brothers'  Hospital,  539  N.  Market  Street. 

Chicago  Polyclinic,  174  E.  Chicago  Ave. 

German  Hospital  and  Dispensary,  754  Larrabee  Street. 
Open  from  10  A.  M.  to  12  M. 

North  Star  Dispensary,  192  Superior  Street. 

Bennett  Free  Dispensary,  Ada  and  Fulton  Streets. 

Central  Free  Dispensary,  Harrison  and  Wood  Streets. 
Open  from  9  A.  M.  to  6  P.  M. 

Homeopathic  Hospital  Free  Dispensary,  Wood  and  York 
Streets. 

Women  and  Children's   Hospital   Dispensary,   Adams 
and  Paulina  Streets. 

111.  Char.  Eye  and  Ear  Dispensary,  121  S.  Peori a  Street- 
Open  from  2  to  3  P.  M. 

Kirkland  Free  Dispensary,  111  S.  Halsted  Street- 
Lincoln  Street  Dispensary,  333  S.  Lincoln  Street.     Open 
from  2  to  4  P.  M. 

W.  C.  T.  U.  Free  Dispensary,  870  W.  Madison  Street. 

West  Side  Free  Dispensary,  Harrison  and  Honore  Sts. 
Open  from  9  A.  M.  to  5  P.  M. 

Chicago   Public  Dispensary,   819  W.   Harrison  Street. 

Armour  Mission  Dispensary,  33rd  Street  and  Armour 
Ave.     Open  from  9  to  11  A.  M. 

Michael  Reese  Hospital   Dispensary,  Groveland   Ave. 
and  29th  Street.     Open  from  9  A.  M.  to  12  M. 

Charity  Hospital  Free  Dispensary,  2407  Dearborn  Street- 
Open  from  8  A.  M.  to  4  p.  M. 

South  Side  Free  Dispensary,  2435  Dearborn  Street.  Open 
from  1  to  3  p.  M. 

St.   Luke  Free  Dispensary,   1434  Indiana  Ave.      Open 
from  1  to  2:30  p.  M. 

Hahnemann  Hospital  Dispensary,  2813  Groveland  Ave. 

The  Willie  Hipp  Free  Dispensary  for  poor  children.  4453 
State,  cor.  55th  Street.     Open  from  3  to  4  p.   M. 

Columbia  Char.  Dispensary  and  Hospital,  3823  LaSalle. 

Woman's  Hospital  Dispensary, Rhodes  Ave.  and  32nd  St. 

The  Minnetonka  Free  Dispensary,  414  W.  Madison. 

The  Hull  House  Free  Dispensary,  247  W.  Polk   Street. 
Open  from  3  to  4  and  7  to  8  p.  M. 

Physio-Medical  College  Dispensary,  519  Milwaukee  Ave. 
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FRIENDLY  AID  SOCIETY. 

3961   DREXEL  BOULEVARD. 

Object:  "The  object  of  this  society  shall  be  char- 
itable work,  such  work  to  be  decided  upon  by  the 
vote  of  the  majority  of  the  members  present.  It 
shall  be  non-sectarian  and  consist  of  members  who 
shall  contribute  annually  to  its  funds." 

There  are  at  present  no  members, all  living  in  the 
neighborhood.  The  work  undertaken  last  winter 
was  to  contribute  $609.12  towards  the  building  fund 
of  the  Destitute  Crippled  Children's  Home,  and 
later  the  opening  and  maintenance  of  an  emergency 
sewing  room  at  197  Oakwood  Boulevard. 

The  receipts  were,  from  membership  fees  $139; 
from  bazar  $656.95;  from  donations  $326.38;  from 
minstrels  $591.25.  Total,  $1,713.58.  Disbursements 
to  Crippled  Children's  Home  $609. 12, for  emergency 
rooms  and  incidentals  $397.90.  Balance  in  hand, 
$706.65. 

No  solicitors  or  other  salaried  agents  are  em- 
ployed. The  nature  of  the  work  undertaken  is  de- 
termined by  the  membership  as  the  various  causes 
present  themselves. 

MRS.  TELFORD  BURNHAM,   President. 

MRS.  JONAS  HUTCHINSON,  First  Vice-President. 

MRS.  A.    G.   CONE,   Second  Vice-President. 

MRS.  L.    D.    CONDEE,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  JOHN  D.  BANGS,  Secretary. 

MRS.  JOHN  MORSE,  Assistant  Secretary. 

til 


HOME    FOR  SELF-SUPPORTING   WOMEN. 

275  INDIANA  STREET. 

Provident  Laundry. 
Employment  Bureau. 

Object:  "To  establish  and  render  self-supporting 
a  lodging  and  boarding  house  where  working  women 
and  girls  with  small  means  can  find  a  comfortable 
and  respectable  home  at  a  moderate  price." 

The  Home  was  organized  in  1887.  During  1894 
there  were  250  girls  admitted,  and  almost  as  many 
turned  away  for  want  of  accommodations.  It  admits 
women  engaged  in  all  kinds  of  work  and  has  no  re- 
ligious tests,  affiliating  with  no  religious  bodies.  A 
small  price,  $2.50  a  week,  is  charged  for  board  and 
lodging.  The  Home  is  self-supporting.  The  build- 
ing is  owned;  there  are  no  endowments.  Receipts 
from  board  and  lodging,  1893-94,  $8,097.  Total, 
$10,377.  Disbursements,  $9,429.35. 

MRS.  JOHN  KEY,  President. 

MRS.   M'cMuRRAY,  First  Vice-President. 

MRS.  C.   H.   HAMILL,   Second  Vice-President. 

MRS.  JOHN  HANNAH,  Third  Vice-President. 

MRS.  ROBERT  HUNT,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  WALLACE  KIRK,  Corresponding  Secretary. 

MRS.  RUGBY,  Matron. 

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HOMK    FOK    SELF-SUPPORTING    WOMEN, 


64  HOME   FOR   SELF-SUPPORTING  WOMEN 

Provident  Laundry. 

275     Indiana    St.      Established     in   1889. 

Object:  "To  provide  a  channel  of  work  for 
able-bodied  women  out  of  employment  and  desirous 
to  become  self-supporting;  to  maintain  a  training 
school  where  superior  work  is  taught,  and  an  Em- 
ployment Bureau  where  permanent  situations  are 
secured  for  those  desiring  them." 

The  Laundry  is  conducted  in  the  rear  of  the  Home, 
overtaxing  its  accommodations.  An  average  of  25 
women  find  employment  daily.  The  weekly  receipts 
average  $250.  A  large  number  of  these  women, 
the  committee's  report  says,  become  proficient 
enough  to  take  permanent  positions  in  families. 

An  Employment  Bureau  is  connected  with  the 
laundry,  giving  to  needy  women  sent  by  various 
charitable  organizations  employment,  mostly  in  pri- 
vate families.  This  averages  from  60  to  80  days'  work 
a  month.  During  1893-4  tne  receipts  were  $12,- 
817.14;  $9,073.54  were  paid  in  wages;  running  ex- 
penses $1,786.67;  balance  of  profit,  $2,000,  which 
was  given  to  the  Home  to  cancel  its  indebtedness. 

MRS.  J.  B.  LYON,  President. 

MRS.  R.  R.  CAMPBELL,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  M.  McCARiHY,  Superintendent. 

Miss  J.  L.   KING,  Corresponding  Secretary. 


HULL    HOUSE. 

335  S.    HALSTKD  STREET. 

The  Kindergarten,  335  S.  Halsted  Street. 

The  Day  Nursery,  221  Ewing  Street. 

The  Diet  Kitchen,  240  W.  Polk  Street. 

The  Public  Dispensary,  247  W.  Polk  Street. 

Hull  House  is  a  "social  settlement."  Its  twenty 
residents  are  interested  in  promoting  whatever  social 
or  educational  movements  promise  to  contribute  to 
the  welfare  of  the  neighborhood. 

It  conducts,  under  the  superintendence  of  resi- 
dents, clubs  and  classes  having  a  weekly  member- 
ship of  more  than  2,000  persons. 

It    has  these  distinctively  charitable  departments: 

The  Kindergarten  and  Day  Nursery  provide  for 
the  care  of  children  while  the  mothers  are  at  work, 
the  creche  averages  about  30  children  each  day. 
The  average  attendance  at  the  Kindergarten  is  25. 

The  Diet  Kitchen  in  connection  with  the  Coffee 
House  prepares,  in  a  scientific  manner,  foods 
and  broths  for  invalids,  and  supplies  them  at 
a  nominal  charge  or  cost  price  to  any  one  present- 
ing a  certificate  from  a  district  nurse  or  a  physician. 
Foods  are  also  sold  by  the  quart  or  pound  to  fam- 
ilies for  home  consumption.  Coffee,  soups  and  stews 
are  delivered  daily  at  noon  to  neighboring  factories. 

The  Public  Dispensary  was  opened  in  October, 
1893,  for  the  purpose  of  affording  professional  ser- 
vice at  small  expense,  together  with  instruction  on 
matters  of  hygiene  and  the  prevention  of  disease. 

Over  2.000  patients  have  been  treated,  the  resi- 
dents investigating  the  cases  applying.  The  Dis- 
pensary is  open  daily  from  3  to  4  and  7  to  8  P.  M. 

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66  HULL  HOUSE 

It  is  supported  by  the  Dearborn     Seminary  Alumni 
Association. 

There  is  no  formal  organization  of  these  depart- 
ments of  work;  they  are  supported  by  monthly  con- 
tributions, from  private  individuals.  No  paid  solic- 
itors are  employed,  nor  are  there  endowments. 
There  are  no  religious  affiliations. 

Miss    JANE  ADDAMS. 


SOCIAL  SETTLEMENTS  IN  CHICAGO. 

(In  their  Historic  Order.) 

Hull  House,  335  So.  Halsted  St. 

Northwestern  University  Settlement,  26  Rice 
Street. 

Maxwell  Street  Settlement,  145  Maxwell  St. 

University  of  Chicago  Settlement,  4655  Gross 
Ave. 

Epworth  House,  (page  201),  229  21-  So.  Hal- 
sted St. 

Chicago  Commons,  24  Union  St. 


ILLINOIS      SCHOOL    OF     AGRICULTURE 
AND  MANUAL  TRAINING  FOR  BOYS. 

GLENWOOD,    ILL.    SECRETARY'S  OFFICE,   ROOMS    27-8, 
113  ADAMS  ST.  ,  COR.  CLARK. 

Objects:  "To  provide  a  home  and  proper  train- 
ing for  destitute  and  wayward  boys  who  may  be 
committed  to  its  charge." 

The  school  was  opened  first  at  Norwood  Park, 
June  30,  1887,  and  removed  to  its  present  site  at 
Glenwood,  June  12,  1890.  It  was  regularly  incor- 
porated under  the  State  Industrial  School  law,  Feb. 
14,  1887. 

Its  seventh  annual  report  shows  as  follows: 
Number  of  boys  registered  since  organization 

of    Home ij3O2 

Number  of  boys  placed  out  since  organization 

of  Home. l,o&7 

Number  of  boys  in  the  Home  May  ist,   1893..     203 
Number  of  boys  received  in  the  Home  during 

the  year 248 

Number  of  boys  returned  during  the  year,  pre- 
viously placed  in  private  homes 16 

Number  of  boys  placed  in    homes  or  restored 

to  friends  during  the  year 232 

Number  of  boys  cared  for  during  the    year. .  .'.     467 

Number  of  boys  in  the  Home  May  ist,   1894..      235 

Number    of    boys     in      Kindergarten      16,      in 

Primary  43, in  ist  grade  21, in  2nd  65, in  3rd 

1 1 2,  in  4th  85,  in  5th  76,  in  6th  36,  in  7th  13. 

Total  in  school  for    the   year 467 

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68      SCHOOL  OK      AGRICULTURE   AND   MANUAL  TRAINING 

From  May  ist,  1893,  to  May  ist,  1894,  223  boys 
left  the  school,  160  going  back  to  their  friends,  and 
63  being  indentured  into  country  homes;  16  were 
readmitted.  Of  the  235  in  Ihe  school,  May  ist, 
1894,  5  were  in  4  years,  9  three  years,  22  two  years, 
56  one  year,  143  less  than  one  year.  The  ages  of 
the  boys  were:  48  from  6  to  10;  101  from  10  to  12; 
62  from  12  to  14;  24  from  14  to  16.  No  death  oc- 
curred; 1 8  nationalities  were  represented.  The  boys 
are  taught  various  trades  and  agriculture,  raising 
farm  products  to  a  value  of  $4,555.86. 

The  treasurer's  report  is  as  follows: 

Cash  on  hand  at  last  Annual  Meeting.  .  ..$22,353.15 

For  the  Building  Fund 5,500.00 

From  Friday  Club  Endowment  Fund....  7,000.00 

From  General  Donations 7,005.19 

From  Boarders 4,422.92 

From  Cook    County 12, ooo.  oo 

From  Other    Counties 919.34 

From  Board  of  Stock 287.70 

From  Interest  on  Deposits 188.21 

From  World's  Fair  for  Boys'  Services.  ..  441.70 

From  Miscellaneous  Sources 525.08 


Total  Receipts $60,643. 29 

Expended  for  Bld'g  Fund,  1894527,574.88 
Expended  for  General  Expenses 

this    year 24,264.01   $51,838.89 


Total  Cash  on  Hand $8,804. 4° 

Building    Fund  Balance $     828.33 

Friday  Club  Endowment  Fund. .  7,000. oo      7,828.33 


Balance  to  Credit  of  General  Fund..  .$976.07 


7O     SCHOOL  OF  AGRICULTURE    AND     MANUAL     TRAINING 


LIABILITIES. 


Owing  for  Salaries  and  Wages..  .$4,881.37 
Owing  for  Supplies  and  General 

Expense 3, 462. 66 

Owing  for  Building  Fund,  Charity 

Ball 5,  ooo.  oo 


$13,344.03 
Leaving  net  indebtedness    May  i,  1894:     $10,790.80 

Net  Indebtedness  May  J,   1893,  was $10,857.28 

Net  Indebtedness  May  i,   1894,  is $10,790.80 


A  decrease  for  the   year  of $66.48 

Per  capita  cost  for  each  boy   is  yearly $103.00 

The  Society  is  without  sectarian  affiliation;  has  an 
endowment  of  $7,000  for  its  manual  training  depart- 
ment. The  management  is  vested  in  a  Board  of 
nine  men.  It  also  has  an  auxiliary  committee  of  25 
ladies. 

DIRECTORS. 

JOHN  T.  CHUMASERO,  President. 

EDWARD  B.  BUTLER,  Vice-President. 

WM.  R.  PAGE,  Attorney. 

FREDERICK  T.  HASKELL,  Treasurer,  720  The 
Rookery. 

OSCAR  L.  DUDLEY,  Secretary  and  General  Manager, 
113  Adams  St. 

MRS.  URSULA  L.  HARRISON,  Superintendent. 

MILTON  GEORGE,  ANDREW  CRAWFORD, 

A.  N.  WATERMAN,  FRANK  FOLLANSBEE, 

GEORGE  E.  ADAMS. 

AN    ILLUSTRATIVE    CASE. 

The  following  letter  is  written  by  two  of  the  five 
brothers  whose  pictures  are  on  the  opposite  page, 
and  who  were  placed  by  the  school  in  family  homes 
in  Iowa. 


72      SCHOOL    OF    AGRICULTURE    AND   MANUAL     TRAINING 

DKAR  MR.  DUDLEY  : — Well  do  we  remember 
that  awful  cold  day  in  January,  1887,  when  you 
came  to  our  place  and  took  us  all  away,  and  had  us 
taken  to  court,  and  how  you  took  us  out  to  the 
school  at  Norwood  Park.  Mother  had  died  about 
a  year  before,  leaving  us  with  our  three  little  broth- 
ers, Walter,  Arthur  and  Lotha,  with  no  one  to  care 
for  us,  and  our  father,  who  was  drinking,  was  so 
poor  he  could  do  no  work,  and  we  thought  we  would 
all  starve  or  freeze  to  death,  and  I  think  now  we 
would  if  you  had  not  come  for  us  and  put  us  in 
your  nice  school  at  Norwood  Park.  We  thought 
about  the  year  we  spent  in  the  school,  and  how 
comfortable  you  made  us,  and  how  the  teachers 
worked  to  make  us  happy.  We  can  never  forget 
you  and  Mrs.  Harrison  for  all  you  did  for  us,  and 
how  bad  we  felt  to  be  separated  when  you  sent  one 
of  us  away  to  a  new  home.  But  when  we  found  you 
hid  homes  for  all  five  of  us  near  together  here  in 
this  county,  we  were  all  happy  again,  and  will  always 
remember  you  and  the  school  in  our  prayers.  Now, 
Mr.  Dudley,  we  want  to  tell  you  something  about 
our  home  out  here  in  Iowa.  Frank  was  here  five 
years  the  i2th  of  last  December,  and  I  will  be  here 
five  years  the  27th  of  this  month.  We  two  have 
always  lived  with  Mr.  Lessing,  where  you  placed  us, 
and  have  had  a  splendid  home,  and  now  we  are 
getting  to  be  young  men  and  Mr.  Lessing  is  going 
to  help  us  in  business.  Walter,  Arthur  and  Lotha 
all  have  good  homes,  and  are  doing  nicely.  We  see 
them  often  and  are  so  thankful  that  you  took  so 
much  interest  to  have  us  all  located  so  near  to- 
gether. You  have  only  been  here  to  see  us  once, 
but  you  have  sent  Mr.  West  now  three  times;  so 
we  hope  you  will  come  to  see  us  this  summer.  We 
cannot  say  enough  in  praise  of  the  school  that  did 
so  much  for  us  and  so  many  of  the  other  poor  boys. 
There  are  about  thirty  boys  from  the  school  in  this 
county,  and  they  all  would  like  to  see  you. 

"Respectfully  yours,  EDDIE  E. 

"March  7,  1894.  FRANK  E." 


ILLINOIS    INDUSTRIAL    SCHOOL     FOR 
GIRLS. 

SOUTH  EVANSTON.    OFFICE,  ROOM    413,    70  STATE  ST. 

Object:  "The  care  and  training  of  dependent 
girls." 

Number  in  Home  October  i,  1894  146 

Received  into  Home  during  the  year 125 

Total  cared  for 271 

Children  committed 258 

Boarders 13 

Total 271 

Children  committed  (by  Cook  County,  179;  by 
9  other  counties,  26);  boarders  13;  charity  6;  total, 
271. 

The  ages  of  the  children  were:  49  above  12,  23 
between  10  and  12,  40  under  10,  7  under  5,  and  one 
was  3^  years  old. 

The  Committee  on  Home  and    Indenture    report: 

1891  1S92  IS!)!}  1S94 

Applications 27(5  IIS  250 

Placed  in  homes 39  83  52  54 

Upturned  to  friend* 27  23  15  35 

Returned  to  school 10  5  12 

Discharged 1        11  35 

Sewing  Room  and  Laundry. — Work  done  last  year 
consisted  of  the  making  and  repairing  of  bed,  table 
and  other  household  linen,  and  the  wearing  apparel 
of  over  100  girls,  and  the  laundrying  of  80,000 
pieces. 

Report  of  the  Secretary  from  October  14,  1891, 
to  October  u,  1894: 

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INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL   FOR   GIRLS 
RECEIPTS    AND    EXPENDITURES. 


Cook  County  

1891 
$10,000 

1892 
$14,339.67 

1898 

$11,333.19 

1894 

$10,999.92 

3.240 

3,177.43 

1,819.25 

1,891  .00 

30  oo 

13.00 

75.00 

760.27 

i68.5o 

Donations  

1.255 

1,024.42 

352.33 

1,567.20 

60.76 

92.00 

47.53 

29.05 

Dues  

3.00 

2.OO 

666.67 

Total $14,925      819,342.08     $15,025.49     $14,458.12 

There  are  no  religious  affiliations  and  no  endow- 
ments. No  solicitors  are  employed.  The  buildings, 
valued  at  $50,000,  are  owned,  besides  40  acres  of 
land  at  Park  Ridge,  valued  at  $40,000. 

The  directory  took  active  steps  to  secure  the  es- 
tablishment of  a  State  Reform  School  for  Girls. 

MRS.  M.  R.  M.  WALLACE,  President,  3817  Mich- 
igan Ave. 

MRS.  J.  S.  CONGER,  Vice-President,  426  Jackson 
Boulevard. 

MRS.  M.  I.  SANDES,  Room  413,   70  State  St. 

MRS.  C.  C.  HUGHES,  Corresponding  Secretary, 
Room  35,  185  Dearborn  St. 

Miss  CLARA  HUNT,   Treasurer,   2241  Calumet  Ave. 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE    AND   BOARD    OF  TRUSTEES. 

MRS.  M.  R.  M.  WALLACE,  Chairman. 

MRS.  J.  S.  CONGER,  Miss  CLARA  HUNT, 

MRS.  M.  C.  VANBENSCHOTEN,       MRS.  M.  I.  SANDES, 

MRS.  D.  W.  RICHARDSON. 

AN    ILLUSTRATIVE   CASE. 

SOUTH  EVANSTON,  Oct.  5,  1894 

DEAR  MOTHER: — I  have  not  written  to  you  for  a 
long  time,  so  it  will  be  a  surprise  to  hear  from  me. 


INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL  FOR   GIRLS  77 

The  last  letter  I  received  from  you  was  so  short  that 
I  could  hardly  believe  that  you  wrote  it. 

Well,  mother,  winter  is  very  near,  and  I  will  be 
glad,  for  I  enjoy  it  more  than  I  do  summer. 

I  think  you  were  informed  in  your  letter  from 
Jessie  that  she  had  entered  public  school  in  Sep- 
tember. 

She  is  getting  along  very  nicely.  She  is  in  sixth 
grade.  I  can  hardly  call  her  little,  for  her  birthday 
is  coming  around  next  month,  and  it  seems  as 
though  she  is  as  old  as  I  am  (although  she  is  not). 
How  is  little  Arthur  getting  along?  Has  he  started 
school  yet?  If  I  am  not  very  careful  and  stud)'  a 
little  harder,  Jessie  and  Arthur  will  get  ahead  of 
me.  I  still  work  in  the  bakery,  and  I  like  it  just 
as  well  as  ever. 

Some  day,  if  I  ever  help  you  keep  house,  I  will 
know  how  to  bake  bread  and  do  a  great  many  other 
things  that  will  help  you.  Mother,  don't  forget  that 
we  are  both  getting  to  be  large  girls,  so  by  the  time 
we  get  home,  we  can  almost  take  care  of  you. 

With  love  to  all  from  Jessie  and  myself, 
I  am  your  loving  daughter, 

Mary  C. 
Love  to  Katie  and  Grandma. 

P.  S.  Jessie  is  at  school  while  I  am  writing  this. 
If  you  are  not  too  tired,  please  write  us  a  long 
letter.  Mary. 


THE  ILLINOIS  HUMANE  SOCIETY. 

560  Wabash  Avenue.    (Telephone  "Harrison"  384.) 

Chartered  by  the  Legislature  as  the  Illinois  Society 
for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals,  March  25th, 
1869.  Prevention  of  cruelty  to  children  was  joined 
to  its  work  and  its  name  changed  to  The  Illinois 
Humane  Society,  July  5th,  1877. 

Its  objects  are  to  secure  the  enactment  and  enforce- 
ment of  laws  for  the  prevention  of  cruelty  to  Animals 
and  Children,  to  induce  effective  action  toward  the 
same  throughout  this  State,  and  by  a  system  of 
humane  education  to  promote  a  humane  public  sen- 
timent. 

The  spirit  and  office  of  the  organization  is  to  ed- 
ucate rather  than  to  punish. 

The  Society  is  supported  chiefly  by  voluntary  con- 
tributions; but  the  Legislature  of  1885  authorized 
the  payment  of  all  fines  paid  in  money,  imposed 
through  its  agency,  into  its  treasury. 

The  Society  is  called  on  continually  for  a  multi- 
tude of  services  outside  its  legitimate  sphere,  and 
is  active  in  giving  aid,  either  material  or  advisory, 
to  all  applicants. 

SUMMARY    FOR  THE   YEAR    ENDING   APRIL   3OTH,     1894. 

Complaints  received  and  investigated 3>i95 

Children  rescued  and  condition  remedied 375 

Children  sent  to  Charitable  Institutions 346 

Persons  prosecuted  for  cruelty    to  children 41 

Persons  prosecuted  for  cruelty  to  animals 53 

Horses  ordered  laid  up  as  unfit    for  service..  ..  273 

78 


ILLINOIS    HUMANE    SOCIETY. 


THE   ILLINOIS    HUMANE    SOCIETY 

Disabled  animals  removed  by  ambulance ,  154 

Teamsters  and  others  reprimanded 680 

Abandoned  and  incurable  animals  killed. 319 

The  Society  has  erected  forty-three  Street  Foun- 
tains throughout  the  city  for  the  supply  of  drinking 
water  to  persons  and  animals. 

Complaints  when  received  are  promptly  examined, 
whether  forwarded  anonymously  or  not;  but  it  is  re- 
quested for  obvious  reasons  that  the  names  of  the 
complainants  should  be  signed  to  them.  The  name 
of  the  sender  is  never  divulged  if  requested  to  be 
kept  secret. 

The  Society  owns  its  building, at  560  Wabash  Ave. 

Contributions  may  be  sent  to  the  President  or 
Treasurer  or  to  any  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

ILLUSTRATIVE    CASES. 

Two  women,  Mamie  and  Lillie  —  — ,  were 

arrested  for  cruelty  to  a  dog.  The  facts  appeared 
that  these  women  had  decoyed  the  dog  into  their 
house,  swathed  its  tail  in  cotton  cloth,  saturated 
the  whole  body  with  kerosene  oil,  taken  it  to  the 
street  and  then  set  fire  to  it.  The  dog  was  so  fatally 
injured  that  it  had  to  be  killed.  Parties  fined,  each, 
$100  and  costs. 

G.  W.  — ,  an  old  offender,  was  arrested 
for  working  mules  unfit  for  work  upon  the  drainage 
canal  and  fined  $200  and  costs  by  Justice  Everett 
on  August  1 6th,  1894. 

A  boy,  about  20  years  old,  was  found  mutilating 
dogs  by  cutting  off  their  ears,  apparently  as  an  ex- 
periment in  vivisection.  He  was  fined  Sioand  costs. 

Ten  dollars  and  costs  was  the  fine  imposed  on 
each  of  three  men  for  working  horses  in  the  brick 
yards  with  sore  shoulders. 

W.  A.  -    -  and  Edwin  E.  —     -  were  prosecuted  and 


THE    ILLINOIS   HUMANE    SOCIETY  8l 

sentenced  to  fifteen  years  each  for  criminal  assault 
upon  their  fourteen  year  old  daughters.  We  placed 
the  girls  in  an  Institution,  where  they  will  receive 
proper  training  and  care. 

Complaint  was  made  of  the  abuse  of  a  girl,  five 
years  old,  by  her  father  and  step-mother,  by  shutting 
her  up  in  a  closet  in  the  basement  of  their  house, 
and  otherwise  abusing  her.  The  man,  being  willing(or 
so  claiming)  to  do  the  best  for  the  welfare  of  the 
child,  was  sent  by  us  to  the  Chicago  Industrial 
School  to  make  arrangements  for  the  child's  admis- 
sion. Two  days  afterward,  the  father  desired  to 
place  the  girl  with  a  private  family,  to  which  we 
consented.  When  we  sought  afterward  to  examine 
the  conditions  existing,  we  learned  that  the  father 
had  taken  the  girl  away  to  Michigan.  We  then  swore 
out  warrants  for  the  man,  his  wife  and  mother-in- 
law  for  cruelty  to  the  fchild,  and  all  three  were  held 
to  the  Criminal  Court'  in  $800  bonds  each,  and  the 
child  was  returned  to  the  School.  The  father  then 
asked  that  the  child  be  placed  in  custody  of  this 
Society;  consenting  to  her  adoption  by  an  uncle  in 
Milwaukee,  to  whom  she  was  committed — upon 
which  and  the  conveyance  of  the  father's  interest 
in  a  small  property  left  by  the  child's  mother  at  the 
time  of  her  death,  we  deemed  it  best  to  nol.  pros, 
the  case,  and  the  Judge  so  ordered. 

JOHN  G.  SHORTAI.L,  President. 
GEORGE  SCHNEIDER,  Treasurer. 
BELDEN  F.  CULVER,  Secretary. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

JOHN  G.  SHORTALL,  FERD.  W.  PECK, 

JOHN  C.  DORE,  HENRY  N.  HART, 

*DAVIL>  SWING,  THOMAS  E.  HILL, 

WM.  PENN  NIXON,  JOHN  T.   DALE, 

GEORGE  SCHNEIDER, 


ILLINOIS    TRAINING    SCHOOL    FOR 
NURSES. 

Objects:  "To  train  nurses  and  to  furnish  them  to 
the  sick  and  wounded. " 

The  School  was  organized  in  1880.  Its  I2th  an- 
nual report  shows  the  total  number  graduated  since 
its  organization  as  being  259.  A  superintendent  with 
two  assistants,  a  night  superintendent,  and  124  pu- 
pils were  in  attendance  at  the  time  of  last  report. 
During  1892-93,  46  were  graduated  after  a  two  years' 
course,  receiving  diplomas  arid  $100  each  in  money. 

The  Bureau  of  Registration  contains  119  names 
of  graduates  who  are  sent  out  to  do  private  nursing; 
the  calls  for  such  nurses  were  1138  during  last  year. 
The  fee  is  $5  for  registering. 

The  School  supplies  the  nurses  for  the  Cook 
County  and  the  Presbyterian  Hospitals,  and  received 
last  year  from  the  former  $13,587.33  and  from  the 
latter  $12,129. 36;  other  receipts  were,  from  annual 
membership  dues,  $960;  interest,  $750;  total  re- 
ceipts, $87,518.72.  This  included  a  bequest  of  $50,000 
from  John  Crerar.  Expenditures:  for  hospital  ex 
:  penses,  $43,309;  for  household  expenses,  $18,717.58, 
etc.;  mortgage  loan,  $55,000;  balance  on  hand,  Oct. 
i,  '92,  $4,494.82.  No  solicitors  are  employed.  The 
house  is  owned. 

MRS.   T.  M.  FLOWER,   President. 

)J 
MRS.  Oi<son  SMITH,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  L.   L.  DOCK,   Superintendent. 
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ILLINOIS  INDUSTRIAL  ASSOCIATION. 

265  LINCOLN  ST.      INCORPORATED   1894. 

Objects:  "To  assist  well  disposed  ex-convicts, 
by  providing  them  work  temporarily,  and  aiding 
them  in  finding  permanent  employment. " 

No  home  is  furnished  the  men,  but  a  shop  in 
which  the  trade  of  broom-making  is  carried  on, 
which  is  always  open  to  give  temporary  employ- 
ment, and  pays  such  wages  as  will  enable  a  man  to 
maintain  himself  in  an  honest  course  of  life.  Here 
the  superintendent,  who  has  devoted  himself  to  the 
welfare  of  the  class  for  whom  the  Association  was 
formed,  for  the  past  seven  years,  can  always  be 
found,  and  gives  a  hearty  greeting  to  every  one 
truly  desirous  of  reforming,  seeking  permanent  em- 
ployment for  them  as  soon  as  they  have  demon- 
strated their  sincerity,  and  giving  them  kind  counsel 
and  words  of  cheer.  No  alms,  but  a  friend  and 
work  are  furnished. 

Originally  in  1885,  this  work  was  founded  by 
some  of  the  present  Directors,  with  others  not  now 
identified  with  it,  with  the  late  Michael  Dunn,  an 
ex-convict,  as  Superintendent.  A  temporary  Home 
was  given  the  men  for  several  years,  but  that  fea- 
ture of  the  work  has  been  given  up  after  a  thorough 
trial,  the  present  system  being  deemed  the  wiser 
one. 

ILLUSTRATIVE  CASES. 

M.  B.  T applied  for  assistance  after  discharge 

from  a  five  years'  sentence  to    the    penitentiary;    he 
confessed  to  never  having  done  an  honest  day's  work 

83 


84  ILLINOIS   INDUSTRIAL  ASSOCIATION 

in  his  life,  having  been  educated  in  criminal  ways 
from  infancy,  but  said  he  wished  to  abandon  such 
a  life  and  lead  an  honest  one  in  future.  It  was  a 
very  discouraging  case  at  first,  as  he  seemed  inca- 
pable of  learning  any  mechanical  pursuit;  after  a 
short  time,  however,  outside  work  was  secured  for 
him  at  which  he  succeeded  well,  and  he  soon  gained 
the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  employers,  who  pro- 
moted him  from  time  to  time  until  he  now  occupies 
a  responsible  position  in  the  business.  He  married 
well  soon  after  getting  established  in  his  work,  has 
united  with  the  church,  and  is  now  an  exemplary 
father  and  citizen. 

K.   R was    known    as     "a    repeater,"     having 

served  four  sentences  in  penitentiaries,  and  was  con- 
sidered an  incorrigible  criminal.  Soon  after  his 
fourth  discharge  he  applied  to  the  Association  for 
work  and  was  taken  in  hand;  it  seemed  almost  a 
hopeless  task  for  a  time,  but  kindness  won  him  and 
for  years  he  has  lived  an  honest  and  industrious 
life,  providing  for  his  family  and  educating  his  chil- 
dren, as  well  as  often  "giving  a  lift  to  men  who  are 
trying  to  square  it." 

W.  S.   POTWIN,    President. 

GEORGE  F.  FISKE,    Secretary. 

B.  M.  BUTLER,  Treasurer. 

REV.  A.  C.   DODDS,  Superintendent. 

DIRECTORS. 

B.  M.  BUTLER,  A.   M.    DAY, 

GEO.  F.  FISKE,  REV.  A.   K.   PARKER,  D.  D. 

W.  S.    POTWIN,  Jos.  SCHNEIDER, 

C.  W.  STORY. 


FREE    KINDERGARTEN    ASSOCIATION. 

ARMOUR    MISSION,     33RD    ST.      AND    ARMOUR     AVE. 
ORGANIZED  1881. 

Objects:  "To  thoroughly  prepare  young  women, 
free  of  tuition,  to  become  competent  kindergartners; 
to  establish  free  kindergartens  in  the  most  neglected 
parts  of  the  city." 

There  are  each  year  about  eighty  students  in  the 
normal  class,  who  give  their  services  in  the  free 
kindergartens  in  the  morning  as  a  necessary  part  of 
their  training,  and  attend  classes  in  the  afternoon. 
There  are  under  the  supervision  of  the  Association 
twenty-one  free  kindergartens  averaging  in  attend- 
ance from  seventy  to  eighty  children  each.  These 
kindergartens  are  located  in  all  parts  of  the  city  (See 
pages  88  and  89)  and  reach  the  children  of  the  most 
destitute  classes.  As  the  work  is  organized,  a  little 
money  accomplishes  much.  For  instance,  S6oo.oo 
will  pay  the  salary  of  the  principal  of  one  of  these 
kindergartens  for  one  year,  train  four  or  five  young 
women,  and  begin  the  education  of  seventy-five 
children. 

To  put  it  in  another  way,  $4,500.00  will  train 
eighty  or  more  young  women,  and  make  the  exist- 
ence of  twenty  free  kindergartens  possible  by  sup- 
plying assistant  teachers.  Donors  are  asked  to  send 
their  gifts  to  the  Treasurer,  Chicago,  111.,  Kinder- 
garten Association, Armour  Ave.  and  33rd  St.,  with- 
out waiting  for  a  personal  appeal  and  thus  save  the 
expense  of  solicitors. 

MR.  H.  N.  HIGINBOTHAM,   President.! 

MRS.  L.  B.  STEPHENS,  Vice-President. 

MR.    RICHARD  NASH,  Recording  Secretary. 

MR.   W.  E.    KELLEY,  Treasurer. 
85 


FROEBEL  ASSOCIATION. 

4815  KENWOOD  AVE. 

Objects:      "To  spread  the  knowledge  of  Froebel's 
idea,  and  to  press  its    claims    upon    our  school    au- 
thorities and  upon  our  state  legislature,  in  the  con- 
viction that  three  most  important  habit-making  years 
'   could  be  added  to  the  school  life  of  every   child." 

All  but  two  of  its  Kindergartens  have  now  been 
assumed  by  the  Public  Schools.  The  aim  of  the  asso- 
ciation has  to  this  extent  been  realized,  the  Kinder- 
garten being  in  its  conception  the  foundation  of  our 
educational  system  and  not  a  "charity."  The  receipts 
during  1893  were  $4, 180.03;  disbursements  the  same. 
There  are  no  solicitors  employed;  no  endowments  or 
religious  affiliations;  no  property  is  owned. 

MRS.  E.  W.  BLATCHFORD,  President. 

MRS.  T.  W.  HARVEY,  ist  Vice-President. 

MRS.  WIRT  DEXTER,  ad  Vice-President. 

MRS.  WM.  R.  PAGE,  Treasurer,  4747  Kimbark 
Avenue. 

MRS.  J.  C.  STERLING,  Secretary. 

MRS.  ALICE  H.  PUTNAM,  Principal  of  Training 
Class. 

86 


CHICAGO  KINDERGARTEN  COLLEGE. 
10  VAN  BUREN  ST. 

"It  was  organized  to  meet  the  demand  for  more 
thoroughly  trained  Kindergartners  and  Normal  Train- 
ing Teachers.  Special  emphasis  is  placed  upon  the 
careful  study  of  the  'Mutter  und  Kose  Lieder, '  the 
foundation  of  the  Kindergarten  system." 

The  College  is  an  educational  institution  conducted 
on  business  principles,  without  endowments,  and 
supported  by  the  tuition  charged,  as  announced  in 
its  prospectus. 

At  the  same  time  it  does  a  large  amount  of  Phi- 
lanthropic work  each  year  in  aiding  students,  in  sup- 
porting free  Mothers'  classes,  in  training  nurses  and 
in  maintaining  free  kindergartens. 

The  work  of  the  College  is  subdivided  as  follows: 

Teachers'  Department  Literary  Department 

Mothers'  "  Publishing          " 

Nurses'  "  Philanthropic   " 

The  Mothers'  Department  includes  a  three  years' 
course  of  work  and  study,  so  arranged  as  to  include 
each  year  some  part  of  the  Kindergarten  system 
which  will  aid  mothers  in  the  understanding  of  their 
children,  and  give  them  a  command  of  such  kinder- 
garten materials  as  can  best  be  used  in  the  home. 
These  successive  courses  will  occupy  but  one  morn- 
ing of  each  week  for  20  weeks  of  the  school  year. 

Free  classes  are  also  established  for  the  training 
of  mothers  who  have  children  in  the  free  Kinder- 
gartens, which  are  tinder  the  supervision  of  the  Col- 
lege. These  classes  are  conducted  by  specialists  in 
medicine,  domestic  economy  and  hygiene. 

87 


88  CHICAGO  KINDERGARTEN   COLLEGE 

The  Nurses'  Department  trains  "mothers'  assist- 
ants," and  was  organized  at  the  urgent  request  of 
mothers  who  felt  the  need  of  trained  assistants  in 
their  homes. 

The  Literary  Department  includes  lectures  and 
studies,  followed  each  year  by  a  Literary  School.  The 
proceeds  of  this  department, over  and  above  the  nec- 
essary expenditures,  are  given  to  the  Philanthropic 
Department,  which  has  been  organized  for  the  pur- 
pose of  giving  to  all  friends  of  the  Kindergarten  an 
opportunity  to  aid  in  its  charitable  work,  especially 
in  the  establishing  and  maintaining  of  Kindergartens 
in  the  poorest  districts  of  the  city. 

The  free  Kindergartens  under  the  College  are  sup- 
ported by  individuals,  churches,  mothers'  associa- 
tions, etc.,  the  average  cost  being  from  £500  to 
$600. 

ELIZABETH  HARRISON,  Principal. 

MRS   }.   N.  CROUSK,  Director. 

Private  Kindergartens. 

Eleanor  Reid — 2541  Calumet  Ave. 
Halsted  Street—  784  S.    Halsted  St. 
Railroad  Chapel  — 3825  Dearborn  St. 
Armour — 33rd  and  Dearborn  Sts. 
Bethesda—  406  S.  Clark  St. 

Marie  Chapel — Wentworth  Ave.    &    Bushnell    St. 
Tabernacle — Morgan  and   Indiana    Sts. 
Drummond  Kindergarten — Cor.   Clybourn  PI.   and 
Gerard  St. 

Plymouth — 3027  Butler  St. 

German — Locke  and  Bonaparte  Sts. 

Lincoln    Park  — Garfield    Ave.    and    Mohawk    St. 

Talcott — 169  West  Adams  St. 


PRIVATE    ICINDF.UGARTKNS  89 

Alumnae  Kindergarten— 65th  St.  and  Champlain 
Ave. 

Graham  School — 45th  St.   and  Union  Ave. 

Erie  Chapel — Erie  and  Noble  Sts. 

Sixth  Presbyterian — 36th  St.  and  Vincennes  Ave. 

Olivet  Presbyterian  Mission — 245  Cly bourn  Ave. 
Two  Kindergartens. 

Misses  Ganse — 1709  Deming  Court. 

Misses  Stickney — 718  Winthrop  Ave.,  Edgewater. 

Unity  Industrial  School—  80  Elm  St. 

Ravenswood — at  Ravenswood. 

Chicago  Preparatory — 3715  Langley  Ave. 

St.   Paul's — 30th  St.  and  Prairie  Ave. 

Chicago  Ave.  —  Chicago  and  La  Salle    Aves. 

Mrs.   Mary    B.     Willard-  Evanston,     111. 

Alumnae — 300  Maxwell. 

All  Souls—  39  Oakwood  Boulevard. 

Beardsley  School — 88 1   Monroe  St. 

Clark  Street  —  (Italian)  505  Clark  St. 

Drexel — Eda  St.,  between  36th  and  37th. 

Dale — 1840  Belmont  Ave. 

Golding—  1831   Frederick  St. 

Hutchinson — 214  53rd  St. 

Hull  House-  335  S.  Halsted  St. 

Mrs.   Kirkland's — 40  Scott  St. 

Loring — 2535  Prairie  Ave. 

Martin-  4320  Lake  Ave. 

Margaret  Etta  Creche — 24th  St.  and  Wabash  Ave. 

Miller — Sheridan  Ave.,  6427  Woodlawn  Park. 

Milwaukee  Avenue — 577  and  579  Milwaukee  Ave. 

Morrison — Ashland  Boul.   and  Adams  St. 

Raymond  Mission — 3Oth  and  Poplar  Sts. 

Sedgwick  Street — 388  Sedgwick  St. 

Lincoln      Street — Ambrose      and      Lincoln      Sts. 

Home  for  the  Friendless — 2oth  St.  &  Wabash 
Ave. 


KINDERGARTENS    IN  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

Brighton  School,   35th  St.,  near  Lincoln  St. 
Everett  School,  Yorktown  and  34-th  Sts. 
Carter  School,   Wabash  Ave.  and  6ist. 
Forestville  School,  45th  St.  and  St.  Lawrence  Ave. 
Foster  School,  Union  and  Dussold  Sts. 
Hartigan  School,  Butterfield  St.,  near  Root  St. 
Haven  School,  Wabash  Ave.   and  J5th  St. 
Holden  School,   Deering  and  3ist  Sts. 
Horace  Mann  School,  N.  E.  corner    37th  St.  and 
Portland  Ave. 

Jackson  School,  Sholto  and  Better  Sts. 
Jones  School,  Third  Ave.  and    Harrison  St.  A.  M. 
Jones  School,  Third  Ave.  and  Harrison    St.  P.  M. 
J.  N.  Thorp  School,  8gth  St.  and  Superior  Ave. 
Kershaw  School,  Winter  St.,  near  64th  St. 
Kinzie  School,   Ohio  St.  and  La  Salle  Ave. 
McAllister  School,  36th  and  Gage  Sts. 
Pullman  School,  Pullman  Av.  and  H3th  St. 
Prescott  School,  Wrightwood    and  Ashland  Aves. 
Raymond  School,  Wabash  Ave.  and  Eda  St. 
Sheldon  School,  N.  State  and  Elm  Sts. 
Scammon  School,  Morgan  and  Monroe  Sts. 
Tilden  School,  Lake  and  Elizabeth  Sts. 
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LAKE     GENEVA     FRESH-AIR     ASSOCIA- 
TION. 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 

"The  Holiday  Home,"  at  Lake  Geneva,  Wis., 
belonging  to  this  association,  is  a  "summer  resort" 
for  poor  children  and  working  girls  and  mothers 
residing  in  or  near  Chicago.  The  fourth  annual  re- 
port gives  the  total  number  in  the  Home  during 
1891  as  being  461;  of  these  135  were  "working  girls, " 
162  little  girls,  and  163  boys.  "To  prevent  the 
association  of  the  virtuous  with  the  more  vicious 
classes,"  the  report  says  that  last  year,  "as  far  as 
possible,  deserving  convalescents  have  been  sent 
out."  Its  Treasurer's  report  gives:  Receipts, 
$5,224;  disbursements,  $4,764;  from  individual  do- 
nations, $3,888;  from  entertainments,  etc  ,  $1,471. 
Provisions  and  articles  of  use  for  the  Home  were 
also  received.  The  Association  has  no  endowments 
or  religious  affiliations.  Because  of  the  prevalence 
of  smallpox  in  the  city  the  Home  was  not  opened 
in  1894. 

R.  T.  CRANE,   President. 

Miss  M.  D.  STURGES,   Treasurer,  107  Pine  St. 
9.1 


MAURICE  PORTER  MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL 
FOR  CHILDREN. 

606    FULLERTON    AvE. 

Object:      "The  free  care  of  sick  children." 

It  is  especially  intended  to  reach  such  cases  as 
require  special  attention  on  the  part  of  surgeon, 
physician  and  trained  nurse,  such  as  can  not  be 
given  at  home.  All  kinds  of  emergency  and  non- 
contagious  acute  cases  are  admitted  without  for- 
mality. 

The  Hospital  was  founded  in  1882;  in  1886  the 
present  grounds  were  purchased  and  the  building 
erected,  especially  designed  and  equipped  for  hos- 
pital services.  It  accommodates  at  present  20  chil- 
dren. There  are  no  restrictions  of  race,  creed  or 
nationality.  The  age  of  admission  is  from  three  to 
thirteen. 

During  the  past  year  68  children  have  been  cared 
for  at  the  Hospital;  54  were  discharged,  14  remain; 
35  were  surgical  and  26  medical  cases.  Since  the 
organization  232  children  have  been  treated. 

There  is  no  formal  organization,  no  endowments, 
no  solicitors.  The  property  is  owned  and  controlled 
by  Mrs.  Julia  F.  Porter,  who  has  also  the  manage- 
ment and  financial  support,  excepting  that  three  beds 
are  maintained  by  friends  contributing  $250  for 
each. 


MARGARET   ETTER  CRECHE. 

2356  WABASH  AVE. 
Nursery. 
Kindergarten. 
Employment  for  Mothers 

The  object  of  the  Creche  is  the  care  during  the 
day  of  the  little  children  of  mothers  obliged  to 
work  away  from  home. 

It  aims  through  kindness,  cleanliness,  and  a  well 
appointed  kindergarten,  to  educate  the  children  in 
a  desire  to  become  honest,  industrious,  law-abiding 
citizens — and  to  obtain  employment  for  the  mothers, 
enabling  them  to  support  their  children. 

It  is  open  from  6:30  A.   M.    to  7  P.   M. 

A  charge  of  ten  cents  a  day  is  made  for  one  child 
and  five  cents  for  each  additional  child. 

The  Creche  had  an  attendance  in  1894  of  11,442, 
an  average  of  36.5  a  day. 

The  building  and  grounds,  2423  Wabash  Ave. , 
have  been  purchased  as  a  home  for  the  Creche.  It 
is  designed  to  remodel  the  house,  and  every  effort 
is  being  made  to  raise  money  for  this  purpose  and 
it  is  hoped  the  home  will  be  ready  by  May,  1895. 

The  Creche  is  supported  by  contributions  through 
the  members  of  the  Board  and  from  an  authorized 
solicitor,  Mrs.  S.  Kearsey. 

No  endowments  and  no  religious  affiliation. 

The  receipts  for  the  year  1894  were  $3,421. 12,  the 
disbursements,  $3,464.52. 

MRS.  V.  D.  PERKINS,  President. 

MRS.  H.    M.  STARKEY,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  PHILANDER  PICKERING,  Secretary. 
94 


NEWSBOYS'  HOME. 

1418  WABASH  AVE. 

Incorporated  1868    as 
The  Newsboys'  and    Bootblacks'  Association. 

Objects:  "To  provide  a  good  Christian  home  for 
newsboys  and  bootblacks  and  other  unprotected  home- 
less boys;  also  to  aid  them  in  rinding  homes  and 
employment  in  either  the  city  or  country." 

Free  Baths  and  Laundry  occupy  the  first  floor, 
also  the  dining-room,  school-room,  kitchen,  wash- 
room and  general  play-room.  Dormitories  occupy 
the  third  and  fourth  floors.  The  School  is  in  charge 
of  a  teacher  paid  by  the  board  of  education. 

Admissions  to  the  Home. — All  boys  not  otherwise 
provided  for,  and  not  eligible  elsewhere,  are  received 
at  the  Home  at  any  time  upon  personal  application, 
regardless  of  color,  nationality,  creed  or  occupation. 
The  number  of  boys  received  arid  registered,  and 
which  had  "full  privileges,"  was  251  during  1893. 
Those  who  received  "partial  privileges,"  such  as 
bathing,  laundrying  their  wearing  apparel,  receiv- 
ing and  writing  letters,  leaving  packages  to  be 
cared  for,  etc.,  numbered  249  additionally;  whole 
number  cared  for,  500. 

As  the  policy  is  to  encourage  self-reliance,  a 
charge  is  made  of  15  cents,  when  able  to  pay,  for 
breakfast,  supper  and  lodging.  Lunch  is  provided 
and  other  care  is  freely  extended  when  needed  on 
account  of  sickness  or  for  other  causes.  The  aim 
is  to  furnish  a  home  and  instruction  for  homeless 
boys,  who  are  trying  to  make  their  living  on  the 

street  and  elsewhere. 

95 


y6  NEWSBOY'S  HOME 

By  personal  influence  and  encouragement  they 
are  directed  to  employment,  rather  than  by  distinc- 
tively industrial  training,  and  thus  induced  to  learn 
trades  and  quit  roaming. 

The  Home  is  supported  from  interest  on  invest- 
ments and  small  charges  paid  by  the  inmates.  The 
receipts  for  1891  were  $4,998.56;  disbursements, 
]$4,g8i.44.  The  financial  statement  for  1893-4  *s  not 
furnished.  The  property  is  owned;  no  solicitors  are 
employed;  there  are  no  religious  affiliations. 

The  Newsboys'  Appeal,  an  illustrated  paper,  is 
published  by  the  managers  of  the  Home.  It  is  sold 
only  by  subscription. 

WM.  H.  RAND,  President. 

A.   P.   MILLAR,  Vice-President. 
I  H.  N.    HIGINBOTHAM,  Treasurer. 

JAMES  FRAKE,    Secretary. 

E.  P.    BAILEY,    Auditor. 

ELIZA  W.  BOWMAN,  Matron  and  Superintendent. 
F.  P.  LEFFINGWELL,  M.  E.  STONK. 

H.   H.  KOHLSAAT,  J.  K.   ROBINSON. 


OLD  PEOPLE'S  HOME. 

INDIANA  AVK.    AND  3QTH  STRF.KT. 

Object:  "To  provide  a  home  for  old  people  with- 
out regard  to  race,  creed,  or  nationality,  who  have 
never  been  public  paupers  and  ought  not  to  be  treated 
as  such,  and  who  are  pecuniarily  unable  to  provide 
for  themselves.  " 

The  age  of  beneficiaries  is  sixty  years;  in  special 
cases  fifty-five  years,  and  upwards.  The  admission 
fee  is  $300  and  furniture  for  one  room.  The  2ist 
annual  report  shows  the  number  of  inmates  in  1893-4 
to  be  66.  The  Home  accommodates  only  women. 

Eight  applicants  were  admitted  and  many  were 
refused  because  of  want  of  accommodations. 

The  receipts  in  1893-4  were  $23,809.77.  Expendi- 
tures in  1890,  $13,220.95.  Receipts  from  cash  dona- 
tions in  1893-4,  $4,398;  from  bequests  and  endow- 
ments, $19,411.54;  through  solicitors,  $1,360.50. 
The  net  assets  are  $267,992— $123, 500  in  buildings 
and  grounds,  and  $146,492  in  interest-bearing  in- 
vestments. 

The  religious  affiliations  are  Protestant. 

J.   H.   SWAN,  President. 
X.   L.   OTIS,  Treasurer. 
S.  M.  FULLER,    Matron. 

97 


PROTECTIVE  AGENCY  FOR  WOMEN  AND 
CHILDREN. 

OPERA  HOUSE  BUILDING,  ROOM    806.    INCORPORATED 

1888. 

Objects:  "To  secure  justice  for  women  and  chil- 
dren; to  give  legal  counsel  free  of  charge,  and  to 
extend  moral  support  to  the  wronged  and  helpless." 


COMPLAINTS. 

1887 

1888 

1889 

1890 

1891 

1892 

1893- 

Complaints  entered  

156 

^ 

"45 

1614 

1455 

1347 

1214 

Money  claims  

51 

141 

462 

454 

404 

306 

286 

Compl'ntsof  wives  against  husbands 

21 

48 

181 

3M 

283 

244 

233 

Criminal  assaults  

12 

13 

M 

12 

IO 

20 

7 

Chattel  mortgages  

4 

20 

61 

56 

38 

20 

21 

6 

6 

8 

Destitution  

38 

40 

132 

103 

Bastardy  

4 

20 

23 

34 

S6 

13 

29 

Sewing  machine  frauds  

3 

I 

4 

Frauds,  money  and  goods  

16 

40 

92 

53 

89 

III 

Advice  wanted  

19 

I6Q 

69 

26s 

Employment  wanted    

97 

44 

95 

97 

Cruelty  

22 

8 

13 

3 

Miscellaneous  

55 

121 

V8 

313 

456 

J74 

323 

Guard's'pmattersin  Probate  Court.. 

9 

Calls  for  servants  

17 

Amount  of  money  collected $344.34  $885.37  83,753  $3,566  $1,923  $864  82,945 

Total  amount  collected  in  seven  years,  $14,314.86. 

"The  work  of  the  Protective  Agency  is  carried  on  by 
voluntary  contributions  made  by  interested  friends. 
Since  1890  the  members  of  the  governing  board,  of 
which  there  are  not  less  than  twenty-one,  pledged 
themselves  to  raise  $100  annually,  besides  the  $5 
membership  fee.  The  sum  thus  raised,  with  some 
regular  contributions  from  friends,  averages  $2,635.25. 
The  Agency  employs  a  firm  of  lawyers  for  the  nec- 
essary court  and  legal  work,  and  their  pay,  with 
rent  of  rooms  and  salaries  of  agent  and  assistants, 
comprise  the  larger  part  of  the  running  expenses. 

"Advice  and  legal  services  are  given  without 
charge.  The  character  of  the  work  changes  notice- 

98 


PROTECTIVE    AGENCY   FOR   WOMEN  AND   CHILDREN       99 

ably  from  year  to  year.  There  is  a  constantly  in- 
creasing tendency  towards  the  quiet  and  thoughtful 
adjustment  of  difficulties.  The  advisory  features  are 
considered  the  most  helpful  and  hopeful  indications.  " 

MRS.  F.  J.  HOWE,    President. 

MRS.    H.   W.  CLOUD,  Vice-President. 

MRS.  AGNES  N.   METCALF,   Treasurer. 

MRS    H.  J.  LEWIS,  Recording  Secretary. 

MRS.  W.  H.    RAND,  Corresponding  Secretary. 

MRS.  L.  J.  DREIER,  Agent. 

TAYLOR  &  EAKINS,  Attorneys. 

ILLUSTRATIVE     CASES. 

A  mother  with  five  small  children,  deserted  by  a 
worthless  husband,  wished  to  follow  him  to  S.  Da- 
kota. She  was  advised  by  the  Agency  not  to  do  so. 
She  rented  two  rooms  and  took  in  washing  until 
spring,  when  her  health  broke  down,  and  she  was 
obliged  to  place  her  three  children  in  the  Half  Or- 
phan Asylum.  In  August  she  found  work  in  a  shoe 
factory  in  South  Chicago,  and  Mrs.  Moulton,  the 
assistant  agent,  lent  her  five  dollars  to  m^ve  her 
poor  belongings  there.  Six  weeks  after  she  returned 
the  money,  saying  she  has  no  fear  for  the  future, 
as  her  children  are  with  her  in  a  comfortable  home, 
and  adding:  "It's  you  folks  did  it,  putting  heart  in 
me  so  often  when  I  could  not  go  on  alone. " 

A  Polish  man  deserted  his  wife  shortly  before  her 
confinement.  After  many  fruitless  arrests,  she  came 
to  the  Agency,  which  forced  him  to  support  his  family. 

An  ignorant,  helpless  woman,  deserted  by  her 
husband,  sold  her  furniture,  thinking  to  pay  the 
mortgage  on  it  and  have  something  besides.  She 


100        PROTECTIVE    AGENCY    FOR   WOMEN   AND   CHILDREN 

did  not  receive  enough,  and  all  her  bedding  and 
clothing  for  self  and  three  small  children  was  seized 
and  she  threatened  with  arrest.  She  had  really  paid 
all  lawful  payments  on  her  mortgage,  and  by 
the  Agency's  interference  her  goods  were  restored  to 
her  by  the  company,  and  her  mortgage  canceled. 
We  also  procured  her  and  her  three  children  tickets 
to  Fittsburg,  where  she  has  friends. 


PUBLIC  BATHS. 

(Carter  Harrison) 

192  MATHER  STREET. 

These  baths  were  opened  Jan.  10,  1894,  in  a 
building  erected  for  the  purpose  by  the  city  at  an 
expense  of  $12,000. 

There  are  17  shower  baths  and  a  natatorium.  Two 
days  are  set  apart  for  women  and  girls,  four  for 
men  and  boys.  There  are  accommodations  for  500 
persons  a  day,  but  its  capacity  is  very  much  over- 
taxed. Twenty  thousand  baths  are  taken  monthly, 
each  bather  being  allowed  10  minutes. 

The  enterprise  is  municipal,  supported  and  con- 
trolled by  the  City  Council,  promoted  by  Dr.  Arthur 
Reynolds,  Health  Commissioner,  Alderman  Madden 
and  the  Municipal  Order  League. 

THOMAS  K.  FORMA  NT,  Superintendent. 


PROVIDENT   HOSPITAL    AND   TRAINING 
SCHOOL. 

CORNER    2gTH  AND    DEAKBORN   STS.      INCORPORATED 
FEB.,    1891. 

Objects:  "First,  the  proper  caring  for  the  sick 
and  injured;  and,  secondly  and  especially,  the  open- 
ing of  a  new  field  of  useful  and  noble  employment 
for  colored  women,  who  are  otherwise  barred  from 
lucrative  and  respectable  occupations." 

From  May  4th,  1891,  the  date  of  the  opening,  to 
June  ist,  1894,  the  number  of  patients  treated  were 
526,  an  average  of  175  per  year.  The  total  number 
of  days  of  sickness  were  9, 135, and  the  daily  average 
number  of  patients  were  8. 

The  3rd  annual  report  shows:  197  patients  treated 
during  the  year,  1893-94;  °f  these  152  were  Afro- 
Americans,  10  Irish,  &  Germans,  26  other  national- 
ities; 128  were  discharged  as  recovered,  47  as  im- 
proved, 3  as  not  improved,  and  19  died. 

The  Graduating  Class  for  the  year  consisted  of  six 
nurses,  and  there  are  now  seven  nurses  undergoing 
a  course  of  training  in  the  School  and  Hospital, cov- 
ering 18  months.  There  have  been  forty-five  appli- 
cants desiring  to  become  pupil  nurses;because  of  want 
of  accommodation  only  four  were  accepted.  Eight 
calls  for  nurses  for  private  duty,  received  and  answered. 

Receipts,  June  ist-,  1894,  fro™  donations  and  en- 
dowments, $2,533.30;  from  patients,  $2,881.50.  Ex- 
penditures, $6,045.48.  Three  beds  are  endowed  by 
H.  H.  Kohlsaat,  F.  D.  Haskell  and  P.  D.  Armour. 

LLOYD  G.    WHF.EI.ER,    President. 

THEO.  W.  JONES,  Vice-President. 

D.  H.  WILLIAMS,  Treasurer. 

C.  E.  BENTLEY,  Secretary. 
101 


SCHOOL  CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY. 

158  WEST  MONROE  STREET. 

Old  High  School  Building,  near  Halsted    St.     Telephone  1559  Main. 

Object :  "To  clothe  destitute  children  in  order 
that  they  may  attend  the  public  school  decently  and 
comfortably  clad." 

The  society  was  organized  in  1889  by  Mrs.  Kath- 
arine E.  Tuley,  when  the  law  on  compulsory  edu- 
cation was  first  enacted.  The  work  is  under  the 
supervision  of  the  Woman's  Club,  two  representa- 
tives being  appointed  from  each  of  its  six  depart 
ments. 

The  Society  presents  to  the  public  the  following 
report  of  its  work,  commencing  Nov.  yth,  1893,  and 
ending  March  I3th,  1894,  when  it  closed  its  work 
for  the  year:  During  this  time  it  has  clothed  4, 200 
children. 

The  names  of  the  children,  ages,  nationality,  oc- 
cupation and  income  of  parents,  name  of  school  the 
children  attend,  number  of  garments  given,  and 
other  facts  considered  necessary  are  entered  in  a 
day-book  and  kept  for  reference. 

The  following  goods  have  been  purchased  and  dis- 
tributed by  the  Society  during  the  season: 

Shoes,       pairs 3,416 

Stockings,  pairs 4, 645 

Drawers      )  TT    ,  3,906 

A/  V  Underwear,  pairs 

Vests  j  3>9J6 

Boys'  suits i ,  297 

Mittens  (special  fund)  pairs      48 

Dress  goods  and  skirtings,  yards 3>°7° 

Linings  for  same,  yards 609 

Gingham  for  aprons,  yards 783 

102 


SCHOOL  CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY  103 

All  of  the  dresses,  skirts  and  aprons  were  made 
either  at  the  Women's  Emergency  Rooms  or  by 
ladies'  societies,  free  of  charge. 

The  cash  receipts  of  the  Society  for  the  year  were 
$7,570.46,  the  disbursements  the  same.  As  no  sal- 
aries are  paid,  the  running  expenses  have  been,  not 
counting  printing  and  postage,  $43.55. 

The  Board  of  Education  assists  the  Society.  It 
authorized  the  Thanksgiving  collection  from  the 
public  schools,  which  gives  it  its  largest  revenues, 
$3,736.58.  It  furnishes  a  distributing  room,  with 
heat  and  janitor  service,  and  since  November  has 
delivered  all  the  clothing  that  the  Society  has  sent 
to  the  schools. 

Besides  the  clothing  purchased  by  the  Society, 
large  quantities  have  been  donated  by  individuals, 
societies,  and  merchants  from  other  cities  as  well 
as  our  own;  400  garments  having  been  contributed 
by  one  society.  The  Society  has  set  "Charity 
Globes"  in  many  places  of  business, similar  to  those 
of  "The  Daily  News  Fresh  Air  Fund." 

At  Christmas  the  West  End  Woman's  club  raised 
$185.00,  with  which  it  purchased  shoes  and  stockings 
for  the  Polk  St.  school.  It  has  also  expended 
$150.00  for  shoes  and  stockings  and  $50  for  under- 
wear and  boys'  suits  for  the  Brainard,  Goodrich, 
Tilden,  Foster  and  Walsh  schools;  and  lastly,  it  has 
given  employment,  in  making  clothes  (for  school 
children,  to  fifty-three  destitute  women  in  their  own 
homes  at  $2.00  per  week.  The  money  thus  spent  in 
material  and  wages  amounts  to  $700.00,  making  a 
total  of  $1,085.00 


104  SCHOOL  CHILDREN'S  AID  SOCIETY 

EMMA  COUSEN  DAINTY,  Chairman. 

MRS.  A.  F.  VOLLMER,  Treasurer. 

Miss  GRACE  TEMPLE,  Secretary. 

Miss  GEORGIA  A.  BACON,  Recorder. 

MRS.  HELENF.  STANTON,  Chairman  Purchasing 
Committee. 

MRS.  SARAH  V.  FOOTE,  Chairman  Investigating 
Committee. 

MRS.  CORNELIA  D.  HEILE,  Chairman  Publication 
Committee. 


THE  ARMOUR  INSTITUTE. 

COR.  33RD.    ST.  AND  ARMOUR  AVE. 

Mission. 

Kindergarten. 

Dispensary. 

These  charities  are  connected  with  the  Armour 
Institute. 

The  principal  feature  of  the  Armour  Mission 
is  a  large  Sunday  School,  with  an  enroll- 
ment of  2,200,  and  an  average  attendance  for 
the  year  1893,  of  1,656  scholars.  It  emphasizes  the 
care  and  training  of  children  and  youth.  A  special 
service  for  children  is  held  each  Sunday  morning. 
There  is  a  young  men's  association,  the  Saturday 
Night  Club  organized  for  literary  and  social  pur- 
poses, and  a  similar  young  woman's  club.  Mothers' 
Meetings  are  held  regularly  for  the  improvement  of 
the  home  life.  The  Armour  Battalion  is  composed 
of  three  companies  of  boys,  numbering  150,  which 
gives  a  military  drill  and  aims  to  build  up  habits  of 
sobriety  and  purity.  A  girl's  corps  has  two  com- 
panies of  70,  with  a  drill  and  physical  and  moral 
culture.  All  the  privileges  of  the  mission  are  free. 

REV.  DUNCAN  C.   MII.NER  is  its  Pastor. 

The  Kindergarten  accommodates  about  150  pupils 
froin  3  to  6  years,  and  has  a  superintendent  and  ten 
teachers.  It  is  free  and  open  daily  from  9.  A.  M. 
to  12  M.,  excepting  Saturdays  and  Sundays. 

The  Dispensary  is  open  daily  except  Sundays, 
from  9  to  n  A.  M.,  to  all  who  are  unable  to  pay  for 
medicines  or  medical  advice.  An  average  of  about 
6c  patients  are  treated  daily,  free  of  charge.  Dur- 

105 


106  THE   ARMOUR   INSTITUTE 

ing  the  year  ending  May  ist,  1894,  13,707  persons 
received  treatment,  at  a  cost  of  about  $2,000;  162 
cases  were  treated  at  their  homes. 

The  Institute  is  erected  on  a  site  adjoining  the 
Mission,  at  an  expense  of  $250,000.  It  is  a  Tech- 
nological School,  with  departmeats  for  Academic 
/  training  and  also  for  instruction  in  dress-making, 
cooking  and  domestic  science.  All  who  are  able 
are  expected  to  pay  tuition.  Special  arrangements 
are  made  for  qualified  students  unable  to  pay,  as 
it  is  not  a  free  school. 

The  investments  in  property  and  equipment  of  the 
buildings  of  the  Armour  Institute,  Mission,  and 
"Flats"  aggregate  more  than  $1.500,000.  The  in- 
come from  the  213  department  buildings  is  devoted 
to  and  supports  the  entire  enterprise.  Mr.  Joseph  F. 
Armour  made  a  bequest  of  $100,000  for  a  building 
devoted  to  the  training  and  care  of  children.  His 
brother,  Philip  D.  Armour,  has  increased  this  with 
donations  of  his  own.  The  Mission  has  been  duly 
incorporated  and  the  property  deeded  in  trust  to  a 
Board  of  Directors  consisting  of: 
PHILIP  D.  ARMOUR,  WILLIAM  J.  CAMPBELL, 

[  JOHN  C.   BLACK,  J.  O.  ARMOUR, 

P.  D.  ARMOUR,  JR. 

REV.  FRANK  W.GUNSAULUS,D.  D., President  of  the 
Armour  Institute. 


THE  CHICAGO  DAILY  NEWS  FRESH-AIR 
FUND. 

123  FIFTH  AVE.       INCORPORATED  JAN.  3,  1894. 
Sanitarium    for  Sick    Babies  in    Lincoln  Park. 

"The  Country  Week"  work  of  the  Fresh-Air  Fund 
was  suspended  during  the  season  of  1894,  because 
of  the  prevalence  of  smallpox  in  the  Chicago  dis- 
tricts from  which  thousands  of  "Country  Weekers" 
have  been  selected  during  former  seasons.  This  fea- 
ture of  fresh -air  mercy  will  be  resumed  during  the 
summer  of  1895. 

The  Daily  News  Sanitarium  for  sick  babies  closed 
for  the  1894  season  on  Saturday,  Sept.  29,  with  the 
greatest  record  in  the  history  of  fresh-air  work  in 
this  country, showing  the  eighth  season  of  the  Fund 
very  much  the  most  successful  since  its  inauguration. 
During  the  ninety-five  days  making  up  the  sixteen 
weeks  (less  July  4),  from  Monday,  June  n,  to  Sat- 
urday, Sept.  29,  there  came  to  the  Sanitarium  10,560 
sick  babies,  14,179  mothers,  37,635  children  and 
59>995  visitors,  a  grand  total  of  122,369  persons, 
making  the  daily  average  of  1,288.  During  1893, 
when  the  World's  Fair  dominated  Chicago,  the 
attendance  for  the  corresponding  sixteen  weeks 
was:  Sick  babies,  8,958;  mothers,  11,530;  children, 
24,364;  visitors,  106,175,  a  grand  total  of  131,037 
— daily  average,  1,573.  I*  will  De  seen  that  while 
the  World's  Fair  season  brought  46,180  more  visit- 
ors than  during  the  1894  season,  the  record  for  1894 
shows  an  increase  of  17,522  babies,  mothers  and 

107 


I08  CHICAGO   DAILY   NEWS    FRESH-AIR    FUND 

children  over  1893,  and  represents  the  enormous 
growth  of  the  work  of  mercy  in  one  year. 

Of  the  10,560  babies  cared  for  during  the  1894 
season,  2,340  were  serious  cases  given  full  hospital 
treatment,  of  which  detailed  histories  are  recorded 
in  the  house  physicians'  journal.  No  record  was 
kept  of  transient  treatment  administered  in  the  ham- 
mock court  and  pavilion.  The  death  list  for  1894 
numbers  nineteen,  four  babies  having  died  in  the 
Sanitarium  and  fifteen  at  their  homes  after  having 
been  treated  one  or  more  times.  The  law  requires 
that  the  physician  last  treating  a  patient  must  give 
the  death  certificate,  and  so  it  Happened  that  in  a 
majority  of  the  fifteen  deaths  above  noted  the  pa- 
tients were  brought  to  the  Sanitarium  in  a  dying 
condition  after  the  family  physician  had  exhausted 
his  resources,  and  expired  after  having  been  cared 
for  only  one  clay. 

Outside  of  medical  treatment  and  nursing,  the 
Daily  News  Fresh-Air  Fund  gave  food  and  clothing 
to  many  thousands  of  helpless  mothers  and  children 
and  fitted  out  for  school  something  over  i6oboys  and 
girls  who  would  otherwise  have  been  unable  to  go. 

The  Daily  News  Sanitarium  in  Lincoln  Park  is 
the  largest  structure  of  its  class  in  the  world,  being 
100  feet  in  width  and  200  feet  deep,  built  on  a  sys- 
tem of  piles  over  the  lake.  The  cost  of  building, 
and  equipment  for  the  first  season's  work,  was  about 
$13,000.  At  the  time  of  preparing  this  report  the 
financial  statement  for  1894  is  not  ready,  but  the 
public  contribution  will  approximate  $10,000,  while 
the  Daily  News  will  be  called  upon  to  pay  about 


IIO  CHICAGO   DAILY    NEWS    FRESH- AIR   FUND 

$2,500  for  printing,  postage,  clerical  help  and  other 
expenses  of  administration.  No  funds  contributed 
by  the  public  are  used  to  pay  for  any  part  of  the 
administration  of  the  Fresh-Air  Fund.  This  charity 
is  supported  by  the  voluntary  contribution  of  the 
people, very  largely  through  "The  Children's  Charity 
Globes,"  which  are  familiar  to  Chicago  residents, 
more  than  500  of  these  globes  being  placed  in  bus 
iness  houses. 

At  the  Sanitarium  everything  is  absolutely  free. 
Mrs.  Mary  Gross  Canfield  is  the  matron.  There  are 
no  endowments,  no  religious  affiliations,  and  no  so- 
licitors are  employed.  Any  person  soliciting  money 
or  goods,  or  favors  of  any  sort,  in  the  name  of  the 
Daily  News  Fresh-Air  Fund  is  a  fraud  and  should 
be  turned  over  to  the  police.  No  officer  receives 
compensation  for  his  services  out  of  the  "Fund." 

The  board  of  counsel  and  audit  is  made  up  of 
Gen.  Joseph  Stockton,  Henry  Greenebaum  and  J.  H. 
McVicker.  The  administration  of  the  Daily  News 
Fresh  Air  Fund  is  vested  in  the  following  Board 
of  Directors: 

VICTOR  F.  LAWSON,    President. 

CHARLES  M.  FAYE,  Secretary  and  General  Man- 
ager. 

H.   M.  DEWEY,  Treasurer. 


THE  CHICAGO  RED  CROSS  SOCIETY. 

INCORPORATED,  AUG.  22,   1894. 

Free  Hospital  for  Babies  and  Mothers. 

Object:  The  Chicago  Red  Cross  Society  was 
formed  for  the  purpose  of  building  a  hospital  for 
babies  and  their  mothers,  to  supplement  the  summer 
work  of  the  Daily  News  Sanitarium  in  Lincoln 
Park.  A  large  site  worth  $60,000  has  been  secured 
conditionally  by  the  president,  and  $60,000  addi- 
tional will  be  subscribed  for  the  building,  which  will 
be  located  in  the  west  division  of  the  city.  It  is 
confidently  expected  that  the  hospital  will  be  ready 
for  occupancy  Nov.  i,  1895. 

There  are  no  religious  affiliations.  The  hospital 
will  be  absolutely  free  of  all  charge  to  its  patients. 

The  officers  are  as  follows,  the  first  five  con- 
stituting the  board  of  managers  for  the  first  year: 

CHARLES  M.  FAYE,  President. 

ALBERT  G.  BEAUNISNE,  Vice-President. 

WILHELMINA  WERNER,  Secretary. 

JAMES  LANGLAND,  Treasurer. 

MARY  GROSS  CANFIELD,   Matron. 

Louis  L.  GREGORY,  Chief  of  Medical  Staff. 
Ill 


THE   HOME    OF    DESTITUTE    CRIPPLED 
CHILDREN. 

SOUTH-EAST  CORNER  OF  PARK  AVE.    AND  PAULINA  ST.  , 
46  PARK  AVE. 

Objects:  i.  To  provide  a  home  for  destitute  crip- 
pled children  and  secure  for  them  the  comforts  of 
life. 

2.  To  restore  the  use  of  limb,    correct    deformity, 
and  ameliorate  the  sufferings  of  the  incurable    in  as 
far  as  it  can  ba  done  by    the    skill    and    wisdom  of 
the  most  able  orthopedic   surgeons  and     physicians. 

3.  To  cultivate  and  improve    the  mental   capacity 
by  practical  and  judicious  education. 

4.  To  develop  by  careful   training     any    talent  for 
handicraft  that  may  give  a  purpose  in  life    and  ren- 
der the   inmates  at    least     partially    self-supporting. 

The  property  of  the  Home  consists  of  a  large 
two-story  basement  brick  house  with  two-story  barn, 
erected  on  a  lot  120  x  130  feet,  on  the  south  east 
corner  of  Park  Avenue  and  Paulina  Street.  There  are 
also  fourteen  building  lots  for  the  country  home  at 
Ellsworth  Park,  9  miles  from  the  City  Hall. 

ILLUSTRATIVE   CASES. 

A  girl  13  years  old  received  some  injury  while 
working  for  a  family  and  was  removed  to  Cook 
County  Hospital,  where  her  right  limb  was  amputated. 
As  she  could  not  remain  at  the  hospital  and  had  no 
friends,  she  was  received  into  the  Home,  sent  to 
school,  an  artificial  limb  procured,  and  afterwards 
provided  with  a  good  home  in  a  private  family. 

A  little  boy  2  years  old  was  hydrocephalic,  and  so 
greatly  reduced  by  abscesses  and  chronic  diarrhoea, 

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114      THE    IIOME    FOR   DESTITUTE    CRIPPLED    CHILDREN 

as  to  be  pronounced  incurable  at  the  Home  for 
the  Friendless,  where  he  had  been  cared  for.  Under 
medical  and  constitutional  treatment  he  became  a 
fine,  healthy  and  attractive  boy,  and  has  been  taken 
into  a  family  of  most  excellent  people. 

Eddie,  a  seven-year-old  boy;  paralytic  club-foot  of 
left  side.  Operated  upon,  cured  and  discharged. 

Arthur,  a  six-year-old  boy  with  Dorsal  Pott's 
disease  of  the  spine.  Admitted  January  ist,  1894. 
Provided  with  a  spinal  brace  and  his  condition 
greatly  improved. 

Hugo,a  three-year-old  boy, was  in  a  rachetic  condi- 
tion and  so  weak  and  emaciated  he  could  not  stand 
alone.  After  six  months  of  treatment  he  was  re- 
turned to  his  parents  a  perfectly  healthy  child. 

The  work  is  without  sectarian  affiliations.  In  the 
admission  of  children  there  is  no  discrimination  on 
account  of  race,  color,  creed,  or  nationality.  Im- 
beciles, epileptics,  and  children  with  contagious  dis- 
eases are  ineligible.  Boys  over  12  years  of  age  and 
girls  over  15  cannot  be  admitted  except  by  special 
permission 

The  Home  is  supported  by  the  contributions  of 
the  benevolent. 

During  the  four  years  of  the  existence  of  the 
Home,  82  children  have  been  cared  for,  45  returned 
to  friends  or  placed  in  private  homes.  The  present 
capacity  is  between  40  and  50,  and  two  hundred  ap- 
plications have  been  filed. 

OFFICERS    AND    EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE. 

MRS.   GEORGE  SHERWOOD,  President. 
HORACE  G.  TEELE,  First  Vice-President. 


THE   HOME    FOR   DESTITUTE    CRIPPLED   CHILDREN 

MRS.  A.  V.  H.  WAKEMAN,  Second  Vice-President. 
MRS.   E.  A.  DELANO,  Recording  Secretary. 
MRS.  C.  W.  EARLE,  Corresponding  Secretary. 
JAS.  S.   HUBBARD,   Treasurer. 

MRS.  JNO.  N.  STAPLES,  MRS.  JOHN  SPRY, 

MRS.  J.  H.  BEERS,  MRS.  A.  W.  HOLMES. 

ORTHOPEDIC   SURGEONS. 

DR.  JOHN  RIDLOW,  Medical  Director. 
DR.  A.    E.  HOADLEY,  DR.  A.  B.  HOSMER, 

DR.  WALLACE  BLANCHARD,         DR.   F.  S.  COOLEDGE. 
REV.  I.    PRINCE,  M.  D.,  Supt. 


THE    CIVIC  FEDERATION    OF    CHICAGO. 

Incorporated  Feb.  3,    1894. 

Object:  "Anon-partisan,  non-sectarian  association, 
inviting  the  co-operation  of  all  the  forces  that  are 
now  laboring  to  advance  the  municipal,  philan- 
thropic, industrial  and  moral  interests  of  Chicago. " 

CENTRAL    RELIEF    ASSOCIATION. 

51-53  La  Salle  St. 

Objects:  "The  purposes  of  the  Association  as  for- 
mulated at  its  organization  at  The  Auditorium  Hotel 
December  12,  1893,  were  to  raise  funds  to  meet  the 
then  existing  emergency;  to  disburse  them  as  far  as 
practicable  through  existing  public  and  charitable 
agencies;  to  ascertain  the  need  of  the  unemployed, 
and  to  secure  co-operation  in  extending  the  needed 
relief." 

The  immediate  occasion  was  the  presence  in  the 
city  at  the  close  of  the  World's  Fair  of  thousands 
of  unemployed  men,  many  hundreds  of  whom  were 
without  food  or  lodging  and  crowded  at  night  into 
the  corridors  of  the  City  Hall  and  into  the  various 
police  stations.  In  the  early  fall  a  Citizens'  Com- 
mittee, appointed  by  the  mayor,  later  the  Confer- 
ence of  Charities  and  then  the  Civic  Federation, 
attempted  to  arouse  the  public  conscience  to  the  ex- 
treme emergency  there  was  upon  the  community,  and 
the  need  of  prompt  action  in  the  way  of  relief.  The 
leaders  of  these  and  several  other  organizations  met 
at  the  time  and  place  above  named,  organized  the 
Central  Relief  Association  and  authorized  Mr.  T. 
W.  Harvey,  the  chairman  of  the  meeting,  to  select 

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THE   CIVIC    FEDERATION  117 

50  representative  men  for  the  purposes  above  set 
forth.  Executive  officers  and  sub-committees  rep- 
resenting the  various  industries  were  duly  elected. 
The  work  of  the  Association  has  been  conducted 
along  the  following  lines: 

The  Registration  Department  prepared  a  list  by 
name  and  street  number  of  23,877  families  apply- 
ing for  relief  to  the  charitable  organizations  of  the 
city.  Its  information  is  at  the  service  of  any  one 
showing  a  legitimate  interest  in  any  given  case. 
Its  cost  June  20,  1894,  had  been  $4,313. 58. 

The  District  Department  organized  the  city,  in 
part,  into  districts  for  local  visitation  and  relief. 
Each  neighborhood  with  its  churches  was  invited  to 
look  after  the  cases  of  destitution  within  its  boun- 
daries and  assume  the  distribution  of  the  needed 
aid. 

The  Reference  Department  received  applicants 
for  aid  of  whatever  description  and  directed  them 
to  the  proper  channels  for  relief ;  as  it  was  the  policy 
of  the  Association  to  have  the  needed  aid  given, 
when  possible,  through  already  existing  charities, to 
whose  reports  reference  is  made  for  information 
concerning  this  indirect  work. 

The  Transportation  Department  secured  free  and 
reduced  R.R.  transportation.  More  than  500  persons 
were  thus  aided  at  a  saving  to  the  applicants  of 
some  $5,000. 

The  Supplies  Department  purchased  to  the  value 
of  $14,945-33  provisions,  flour,  coal,  etc.,  for  the 
use  of  the  kitchens  and  for  free  distribution  through 


Il8  THE    CIVIC   FEDERATION 

the  supply  stations   of     the    various    districts,     and 
14,074  articles  of  clothing,  costing  $6,324.71. 

The  Meals  and  Lodgings  Department,  in  pay- 
ment for  work  done,  and  upon  the  presentation  of 
the  Associations'  tickets,  gave  462,084  meals  at  its 
three  kitchens  and  232,066  lodgings  at  twenty-one 
down-town  lodging  houses. 

The  Employment  Department  gave  men  work  at 
sweeping  the  streets.  Each  single  man  was  allowed 
regularly  three  hours  a  day  and  paid  at  the  rate  of 
j  10  cents  an  hour,  but  in  tickets  redeemable  in  meals 
and  lodgings  or  in  clothing,  if  for  an  extra  hour's 
overtime.  Married  men  were  given  more  work,  and 
their  tickets  were  good  for  provisions.  4,500  men, 
of  whom  some  1,000  were  married,  were  thus  em 
ployed  for  an  average  of  about  two  months  at  a  cost 
of  $81,442.83,  or  an  average  of  $18.00  each. 

This  Bureau  also  for  a  few  weeks  upon  the  clos- 
ing of  the  street  work  sent  out  to  farms  10  families, 
12  orphans,  and  40  single  men,  at  an  expense  to 
the  Association  of  $346.70,  less  than  $5.00  per  capita. 

One  family  was  sent  to  central  Illinois,  to  work 
on  a  farm;  a  week  later  a  call  came  from  a  neigh- 
boring farmer  for  the  wife's  sister,  a  widow  with 
two  children,  and  a  few  weeks  after  this  the  aged 
parents,  with  an  unmarried  son,  were  offered  by  the 
first  farmer  a  cottage  with  several  acres  of  land  at  a 
nominal  rental,  transplanting  thus  the  whole  tribe 
from  poverty  to  plenty. 


THE   CIVIC  FEDERATION  lie) 

CHICAGO  WOMAN'S  CLUB  EMERGENCY  ASSOCIATION. 

Object:  "To  give  employment  to  women."  Nine 
sewing  rooms  were  started  in  various  parts  of  the 
city,  in  which  needy  women  and  girls  were  paid 
50  cents  per  day  for  seven  hours'  work  and  given  a 
nourishing  luncheon  at  noon. 

Total  number  given  sewing  to  do  was  1,478. 

In  connection  with  the  New  Era  sewing  rooms  and 
that  of  the  Friendly  Aid  Society,  immediate  relief 
committees  were  formed,  assisting  300  families. 

There  were  sent  from  the  Women's  Club  rooms, 
for  temporary  or  permanent  places,  132  women;  to 
industrial  homes  28.  From  the  Household  Econom- 
ics Association,  there  were  sent  to  places  195 
women. 

This  work  was  done  at  an  expense  of  about 
$19,000.00,  $4,250.00  of  which  was  from  funds  of 
Central  Relief  Association;  balance  was  contributed 
direct  to  the  Women's  Clubs.  The  names  and  ad- 
dresses of  all  these  persons  were  sent  to  the  Central 
Relief  office,  where  they  are  on  file. 

Thousands  of  garments  were  made  in  these  sewing 
rooms  for  the  School  Children's  Aid  Society  and  for 
various  charitable  institutions  and  hospitals  through- 
out the  city.  Bed  quilts,  sheets,  pillowcases,  babies' 
wardrobes,  etc.,  were  made  and  distributed  to  poor 
women. 

FINANCIAL  STATFMENT   OF    EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE 
CENTRAL  RELIEF   ASSOCIATION. 

Received: 

Cash  contributions $135,268.43 


I2O  THE   CIVIC   FEDERATION 

Expended: 

For  labor  department,   lodging    and   feed- 
ing      $46,488.90 

For    labor     department,    clothing,  tools, 

etc 12, 548. 79 

For  labor   department    in    yth,  8th    and 

igth  wards 22,405  14 

APPROPRIATIONS   TO   OTHER    RELIEF   ORGANIZATIONS. 

School  Children's  Aid  Society $      500.00 

United  Hebrew  Charities 100.00 

Women's  Clubs  Emergency  Association. .       4,250.00 

G erman  Society i , ooo.  oo 

Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society 15,100  oo 

Visiting  Nurse's  Association   15,00 


Total $20,965.00 

Cash  disbursed  at  central  office  to  de- 
serving families  requiring  immediate 
relief,  including  railroad  fares  from 
Chicago  to  points  where  they  would 

be  self-supporting 2, 933.85 

Supplies  and  storage    department 14,945.33 

Medical  department 984. 7 1 

Cash  to  district  organizations 2,915.94 

Registration  department 4,3I3-5^ 

Employment    bureau 346. 70 

Finance  Committee's  expenses i,°79- 32 

Central  office  rent,   salaries  and  incidental 

expenses 3, 398. 44 


Total $133,325.70 

Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands  June  20/94     $1,942.64 
Received  and  expended  to  date,  Nov.  20, '94  135,268.34 


THE   CIVIC    FEDERATION  121 

T.  W.  HARVEY,     Chairman    Central    Relief    Com- 
mittee. 

C.   H.  S.  MIXER,  Vice-Chairman  and  Secretary. 
LYMAN  j.  GAGE,  Treasurer. 
ANDREW  McLEiSH,   Auditor. 

OFFICERS    OF    THE   CIVIC    FEDERATION. 

LYMAN  J.  GAGE,    President. 

BERTHA  HONORE  PALMER,   First  Vice-President. 

JOHN  J.  MCGRATH,   Second  Vice-President. 

RALPH  M.  EASLEY,  Secretary. 

EDWARD  S.   DREYER,  Treasurer. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

LYMAN  J.  GAGE,  JOHN  J.    MCGRATH, 

EDWARD  S.  DREYER,  BERTHA  HONORE  PALMER, 

RALPH  M.  EASLEY,  T.  W.  HARVEY, 

FRANKLIN  MACVEAGH,  ADA  C.  SWEET, 

E.  B.  BUTLER,  L.  C.  COLLINS,  JR., 

JAMES  J.  LINEHAN,  M.  J.  CARROL, 

JANE  ADDAMS,  GEORGE  E.  ADAMS, 
SARAH  HACKETT  STEVENSON. 


THE  CHICAGO  DAY   NURSERY   ASSOCIA- 
TION. 

Objects:  To  establish  Day  Nurseries  in  desti- 
tute localities.  To  maintain  a  Training  School  for 
Creche  Nurses.  To  open  a  register  and  Central 
Bureau  to  further  the  interests  and  secure  support 
for  the  Day  Nurseries  of  Chicago. 

The  Board  of  Directors  are  selected  from  the 
various  day  nurseries  of  Chicago.  Among  the  pro- 
moters are  prominent 

AMALIE  HOFER,  Editor  Kindergarten  Magazine, 
1207  The  Temple,  W.  C.  T.  U. 

MRS.  CHAS.  H.  KINGMAN, Vice-President  Margaret 
Etter  Creche. 

MRS.  C.  C.   CHAPEN. 

REV.  N.  B.  W.  GALWEY,  Olivet  Memorial  Church. 

REV.  J.  N.  STRONG,  Room  712,  167  Dearborn 
Street,  to  whom  letters  of  inquiry  can  be  addressed. 
122 


THE  NEEDLEWORK  GUILD  OF  AMERICA. 

Object:  "The  object  of  the  Guild  is  to  furnish 
new,  plain,  suitable  garments  to  meet  the  great 
need  of  our  Hospitals,  Homes,  and  other  Charities." 

Men,  women  and  children  may  become  members. 

Rules:  All  members  must  contribute  annually  two 
or  more  new  articles  of  useful  clothing. 

Any  member  obtaining  contributions  from  ten  or 
more  persons  (or  the  equivalent,  twenty-two  gar- 
ments) becomes  a  Director;  not  less  is  required  of 
each  Officer. 

CHICAGO      BRANCH. 

In  Chicago  there  are  seventy-three  sections  or- 
ganized, including  at  least  3,500  women.  Last  year 
it  distributed  5,734  garments  through  the  hospitals 
and  other  charitable  institutions  of  the  city. 

Officers  of  the  Chicago  Branch,  not  including  the 
72  presidents  of  sections: 

MRS.   POTTER  PALMER,   Honorary  President. 

MRS.  CHARLES  D.  HAMIL,  President,  2126  Prairie 
Avenue. 

MRS.    NORMAN  T.  CASSETTE,  90  Twenty-first  St. 

MRS.  GWYNN  GARNETT,  Treasurer,  3604  Grand 
Boulevard. 

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THE   WORKING  WOMAN'S   HOME  ASSO- 
CIATION. 

21  SOUTH   PEORIA  ST. 

The  Minnetonka  Home,  21  S.  Peoria  St. 
The  Minnetonka  Free  Dispensary,  4i4  W 
Madison  St. 

The  Minnetonka  Free  Fresh  Air  Cottage, 
Lake  Bluff,  111. 

The  Minnetonka  Home,  21  S.  Peoria  St.  Incor- 
porated and  established  April,  1890. 

Object:  "To  maintain  a  lodging  and  boarding 
house  where  working-women  can  find  a  comfortable 
and  respectable  home  at  a  moderate  price."  Its  aim 
is  to  givep  rotection  to  women, strangers  in  the  city, 
and  to  help  those  willing  to  help  themselves  to 
live  comfortably.  It  assists  a  large  number  to  find 
employment  free  of  charge,  and  tries  by  counsel  and 
using  every  influence  to  help  those  under  its  care. 

The  Association  added  to  the  building  it  occupies 
last  year  and  furnished  the  whole  with  sanitary  ap- 
pliances and  steam  heat, and  with  a  special  boiler  to 
supply  its  bath-rooms  with  an  abundance  of  warm 
water. 

The  Home  can  accommodate  about  40  persons. 
During  last  year  it  received  and  cared  for  between 
800  and  900  Any  respectable  applicant  is  made 
welcome.  Those  without  any  funds  are  tern 
porarily  cared  for  and  assisted  to  find  employ- 
ment. 

The  Association  received  from  Board  £3, 042. 74, 
from  donations, including  membership  fees,  $519.84. 

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J26         THE  WORKING   WOMAN'S    HOME  ASSOCIATION 

The  household  expenses  were    $3,554.34,     leaving  a 
balance  of  $8.23  in  the  treasury 

The  Minnetonka  Free  Dispensary,  414  W.  Mad- 
ison St.,  has  been  established  since  May,  1893. 
During  the  first  year  of  its  existence  hundreds  re- 
ceived medical  care  at  the  dispensary  or  were  visited 
at  their  homes.  Nearly  600  were  vaccinated  and 
17  surgical  cases  were  successfully  treated.  MRS. 
LUELLA  DAY-UNDERHILL,  Day  Superintendent. 

The  Minnetonka  Fresh  Air  Cottage,  Lake  Bluff. 

The  plan  of  sending  women,  weary  with  a  year's 
toil,  out  for  a  week's  outing  was  tried  last  year.  A 
cottage  was  rented  and  over  100  girls  sent  out. 
This  year  a  tract  of  200  feet  frontage  was  purchased 
at  Lake  Bluff,  and  a  cottage  built  capable  of  ac- 
commodating about  60  girls  at  a  time.  Any  work- 
ing girl  in  Chicago  is  made  a  welcome  visitor  and 
receives  the  free  use  of  room,  with  dining-room  and 
kitchen  fully  furnished.  They  also  have  the  privi- 
leges of  bathing-houses,  hammocks,  reading  matter, 
and  other  arrangements  made  for  their  comfort  and 
pleasure.  Each  girl  must  buy  and  cook  her  own 
food  and  observe  the  rules  governing  the  cottage, 
for  mutual  advantage  and  protection. 

Applications  for  rooms  should  be  made  to  the 
Association  at  21  S.  Peoria  St. 

A.  CHAISER,  President. 

GEORGE  P.   BAY,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  R.  A.  EMMONS,  Secretary. 

FRANK  E.  BROWN,  Auditor. 

LAURA  G.  F'IXEN,  Business  Manager. 


VISITING  NURSE  ASSOCIATION. 

ROOM   1116  MASONIC  TEMPLE. 

Object:  "To  furnish  skilled  attendance  to  the 
sick  poor;  to  promote  cleanliness  and  to  teach 
proper  care  of  the  sick. " 

This  association  was  incorporated  in  November, 
1890.  It  employs  nine  trained  nurses,  wearing 
special  costumes.  During  the  year  from  December, 
1892,  to  December,  1893,  the  report  shows,  the 
association  cared  for  2,579  different  patients  and 
made  16,580  visits.  The  visits  are  limited  to  40 
minutes'  duration.  They  are  made  not  only  to  the 
very  poor,  but  to  those  living  on  incomes  which  do 
not  enable  them  to  employ  a  paid  nurse. 

The  nurses  often  assist  physicians  in  surgical 
cases,  of  which  there  were  211  last  year.  The  ma- 
ternity cases  numbered  615.  There  were  115  cases 
of  infectious  fevers;  172  patients  were  sent  to  hos- 
pitals; 65  per  cent  of  the  patients  were  given  emer- 
gency relief,  food,  medicine,  clothing,  etc.;  others 
were  referred  to  relief  societies.  The  Association 
has  no  religious  affiliations;  employs  no  solicitor; 
owns  no  property;  has  no  endowments. 

Its  receipts  for  1893  were  $13,141.06.  Its  dis- 
bursements were  $10,153.16  Its  support  is  from 
voluntary  contribution. 

ILLUSTRATIVE   CASES. 

The  following  are  four  of  eleven  cases  aided  in 
one  day,  by  one  of  the  nine  nurses. 

Third  case — Italian  boy  with  burnt  leg.  Limb 
dressed. 


128  VISITING    NURSE  ASSOCIATION 

Fifth  case — Baby  with  bronchitis.  Mother  in- 
structed about  giving  bath  and  oil  rub  and  prepar- 
ing pneumonia  jacket.  Note  sent  to  free  doctor  to 
attend  case,  order  given  to  have  necessary  prescrip- 
tion filled. 

Sixth  case — Jewish  woman,  just  confined.  Tem- 
perature and  pulse  taken  and  recorded,  douche  given 
by  doctor's  written  orders,  half  bath  and  alcohol 
rub,  hair  combed,  bed  made,  cup  of  cocoa  pre- 
pared, baby  washed  and  dressed,  room  swept  and 
tidied.  (Sheets,  pillowslips  and  infant's  outfit 
loaned  at  this  place.) 

Tenth  case  —  Boy,  with  hip  disease.  Wound 
dressed. 

MRS.  E.    C.    DUDLEY,   President. 

MRS.  JAMES  L.  HOUGHTELING,  First  Vice- 
President. 

Mtss  CORNELIA  B.  McAvov,  Second  Vice-Presi- 
dent. 

MRS.    HERMON  BUTLER,    Secretary. 

MRS.  WILLIAM  P.    CONGER,  Treasurer. 


WASHINGTONIAN  HOME. 
566  TO  572  W.  MADISON  ST.   INCORPORATED  FEB. ,1867. 

Object:  "The  care,  cure  and  reclamation  of  ine- 
briates. " 

The  average  length  of  stay  in  the  Home  is  from 
four  to  eight  weeks,  the  charge  for  board  and  care 
being  from  $10  to  $15  per  week  for  the  first  week 
and  from  $5  to  $10  per  week  thereafter. 

Over  10,500  patients  have  received  the  benefits  of 
the  institution  since  its  organization.  Many  of 
these  are  now  in  prominent  situations  in  business 
and  professional  life.  The  treatment  is  medical  and 
moral — pathological,  ha  ing,  it  is  believed,  no  ill 
effects.  It  is  based  on  thirty-one  years  of  experi- 
ence. 

Residents  of  Cook  County  who  are  not  able  to  pay 
are  treated  free  of  charge  to  the  extent  of  the  capac- 
ity and  means  of  the  Association. 

The  Martha  Washington  Home,  N.  E.  Corner 
Western  and  Graceland     Aves.,   is    the    female    de- 
partment of  the  Washingtonian     Home  Association, 
and  under  the  same  management. 

The  number  of  inmates  in  the  two  Homes  during 
1893  was  1626.  Receipts  $33,590.78:  expenditures 
$35' 783- 37-  The  support  is  from  pay  patients  and 
investments.  No  solicitors  are  employed. 

ILLUSTRATIVE   CASES. 

The  second  patient,  admitted  December  24,  1863, 
was  an  editor,  and  considered  one  of  the  worst 
drunkards  in  the  State  in  which  he  lived.  He  had 
sacrificed  everything  he  had  upon  the  altar  of  Bacchus. 


WASHINGTONIAN   HOME  131 

He  was  in  the  Home  for  nearly  three  months,  when 
he  returned  with  a  "record"  marked  good  on  the 
books,  and  immediately  engaged  in  publishing  a 
sprightly-  paper  and  has  continued  in  this  business 
up  to  the  present  time.  During  these  years  he  has 
represented  his  State  in  its  legislature,  occupied  the 
position  of  judge  for  a  number  of  years,  was  a  Grand 
Representative  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F.  from  his  State, 
at  the  head  of  a  State  temperance  organization,  and 
is  still  publishing  his  paper,  and  has  all  along  these 
years  been  active  in  the  cause  of  total  abstinence, 
and  true  to  his  pledge. 

In  August,  1867,  a  gentleman  aged  42,  married, 
and  a  portrait  painter,  was  admitted  into  the  Home, 
and  discharged  March,  1868.  He  was  in  a  very 
debilitated  condition,  but  very  much  interested  in 
his  reformation.  His  family  was  separated  from  him 
through  his  dissipation,  and  it  was  a  source  of  the 
deepest  regret.  He  was  an  excellent  artist  and  de- 
voted his  time  up  to  his  death  faithfully  to  his  call- 
ing. True  to  his  pledge  to  the  last,  he  died  in 
1889. 

In  one  of  our  largest  railroad  offices  in  this  city 
two  railroad  men  met.  The  one  controlled  the  men 
in  the  office  in  which  they  were,  the  other  in  a  sim- 
ilar office  East.  The  foreman  from  abroad  said  in 
their  conversation,  "Do  you  have  any  trouble  with 
reformed  men?"  The  reply  was,  "No,  sir,  I  will 
not  have  them  around  me. "  Now,  the  facts  were 
that  there  were  three  graduates  and  four  inmates 
working  in  that  office  at  that  time,  who  heard  the 
conversation.  The)'  consulted  together,  and  the 


WASHINGTONIAN   HOME  133 

next  day  told  him  that  they  did  not  wish  to  sail  un- 
der false  colors,  and  had  come  to  inform  him  that 
they  were  reformed  men,  and  all  had  been  or  were 
now  connected  with  the  Washingtonian  Home. 
"Boys,"  said  he,  "is  it  possible?"  "Yes,"  they  re- 
plied, "it  is  true."  "Go  back  to  your  work,"  he 
said,  "and  keep  sober.  I  do  not  want  any  better 
men. " 

EXECUTIVE   COMMITTEE. 

C.  H.  CASE,    President. 

T.  M.   CONPROPST,  H.  H.  ALDRICH, 

MRS.  GEO.    SHERWOOD,  GEO.  F.  SEARS, 

MRS.    BRICE  A.  MILLER,  M.    B.  LOOMIS. 

E.  W.   KOHLSAAT,  Treasurer. 

T.  E.  SOMERVILLE,  Superintendent. 

Miss  M.    F.    FELT,    Matron     Martha    Washington 
Home;  Telephone,  Lake  View  181. 


WESTERN  SOCIETY  FOR  THE  SUPPRES- 
SION OF  VICE. 

THE  CHICAGO  BRANCH,  Y.  M.  C.  ASSOCIATION  BLDG. , 
H.   D.  PENFIELD'S  OFFICE. 

Object:  "To  put  forth  special,  efforts  to  suppress 
the  sale  and  circulation  of  obscene  literature,  illus- 
trations, advertisements  and  articles  for  indecent 
and  immoral  uses. " 

The  Society  publishes  the  following  summary  of 
its  work: 

Persons  punished  during  last  year,  25;  altogether 
320;  fines  imposed,  $2,700.  Photographs  destroyed, 
980. 

The  Society  has  branch  offices  in  Cincinnati,  St. 
Louis,  Chicago,  Kansas  City,  Omaha,  and  Lincoln, 
Nebraska.  It  affiliates  with  the  New  York  Society 
of  which  Anthony  Comstock  is  Secretary  .  These 
branches  are  in  charge  of  Secretaries,  who  receive 
no  salaries,  and  give  only  a  part  of  their  time  to  the 
work.  Only  two  salaried  agents  are  employed  for 
the  whole  field  to  which  its  report  refers. 

The  Society  owns  no  buildings,  has  no  endow- 
ments, and  no  religious  affiliations.  It  employs  no 
solicitors;  is  supported  by  subscriptions;  the  member- 
ship fee  is  $5.  Receipts  and  disbursements  for  1893 
were  $5,557-93- 

H.  D.   PENFIELD,   President. 

HENRY  W.   KING,  Vice-President. 

E.  G.   KEITH,   Treasurer,  Met.  Nat.   Bank. 

A.  T.   HEMINGWAY,  Secretary. 

R.  W.  MCAFEE,  Ag't,  Drawer  D  6,    St.  Louis,  Mo. 
134 


WOMAN'S  HOSPITAL  OF  CHICAGO. 

COR.     RHODES  AVE.   AND  32ND  ST. 
Dispensary. 

Training  School  for  Nurses. 
Objects:      "The  treatment  of  the  diseases  and  ac- 
cidents peculiar  to  women;    the  clinical     instruction 
of  students  of  medicine,  and  the    practical     training 
of  nurses. " 

The  Hospital,  during  1891,  according  to  the 
twenty-first  annual  report,  received  and  treated  290 
persons,  having  146  surgical  operations. 

Number  admitted  at  full  rates 227 

Number  admitted  at  special  half  rates  or  less.  29 

Number  admitted    free 34 

Number  of  day  services  at    full  rates. 8511 

Number  of  day  services    special    half  rates  or 

less 1631 

Number  of  day    services    free 247^ 

The  Dispensary  gave  480  treatments    to  84  persons. 

The  Training  School  for  Nurses  has  a  class  of 
22  young  women,  and  a  course  of  two  years.  Outside 
demands  for  trained  nurses  are  also  supplied.  The 
receipts  from  this  source  were  $2,773.50;  from  p'ay- 
patients,  $18,364.51.  Total,  $23,184.26,  disburse- 
ments the  same.  The  Hospital  has  no  religious 
affiliations. 

Donors  are  asked  to  send  their  gifts  without  wait- 
ing for  a  personal  appeal  and  thus  save  the  expense 
of  solicitors. 

ILLUSTRATIVE    CASES. 

Ovariotomy  resulted  in  the  case  of  two  very  desti- 
tute widows  in  restoration  to  health  and  ability  to 
resume  life's  duties. 

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WOMAN'S  HOSPITAL  OF  CHICAGO. 


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WOMAN'S  HOSPITAL  OF  CHICAGO  137 

A  deserted  woman  was  taken  into  the  Hospital 
four  weeks  during  confinement. 

An  invalid  young  lady  was  restored  to  health. 

A  widow  with  eight  children  to  support  became 
unable  to  work.  She  was  operated  on,  staying  six 
weeks,  and  is  now  at  work  and  no  longer  dependent 
on  her  two  little  boys. 

MRS.  JOHN  B.  LYON,  President. 

MRS.  JOHN  L.  CORTHELL,  Vice-President. 

MRS.  MELVIN  J.  NEAHR,  Secretary. 

MRS.  V.  D.    PERKINS,  Treasurer. 

Executive  Committee. 

MRS.  D.     F.   CRILLY,    Chairman. 
MRS.  W.  G.  CALDWELL,  MRS.   H.  E.  SCHOLI.E, 

MRS.  J.R.  MANN,  Miss  A.    D.  STONE. 


THE  NATIONAL    ANTI-GAMBLING  ASSO- 
CIATION 

Object:   To  employ  all  proper  means  for  the  sup- 
pression of  gambling.      Organized,   Sept.,   1894. 
REV.  WM.  G.  CLARKC,  President, 54  Campbell  Park. 
Miss  FRANCES  E.  WILLARD,  Vice-President. 
EDWIN  F.  GOFF,   Secretary. 
I.  P.  RUMSEY,  Treasurer. 


WOMAN'S    CHRISTIAN    TEMPERANCE 
UNION. 

Bethesda  Day  Nursery,  4o6  S.   Clark  St. 
Kindergarten,  4o6  S.  Clark  St. 
Hope  Dispensary,  242  W.  Indiana  St. 
Florence  Crittenden  Anchorage  for  Girls,i25 
Plymouth  Place. 

Talcott  Day  Nursery,  125   S.  Sangamon  St. 
Kindergarten,  125  S.  Sangamon  St. 

Object:  "To  promote  the  cause  of  temperance, 
purity  and  righteousness,  not  only  by  the  education 
of  public  sentiment  through  public  lectures  and  the 
distribution  of  temperance  reading,  but  by  direct 
personal  work  among  the  ignorant  and  unfortunate. 
For  this  purpose  it  has  established  several  missions 
and  charities  in  the  heart  of  the  worst  districts  of 
the  city. " 

The  Bethesda  Day  Nursery  occupies  the  upper 
floor  of  the  three-story  building  in  which  the  work 
of  the  Bethesda  Mission  is  conducted.  The  nursery 
cares  for  from  25  to  40  children  daily  while  their 
mothers  are  out  at  work.  When  able  to  pay,a  charge 
of  from  five  to  ten  cents  is  made. 

The  Bethesda  Free  Kindergarten  is  held  on  the 
lower  floor,  from  9  A.  M.  to  12  M.  The  average  at- 
tendance is  40.  The  receipts  and  disbursements 
of  the  Bethesda  Mission  are  about  $4,500  annually. 
Hope  Mission  Free  Dispensary, 242  W.Indiana  St 

The  receipts  and  disbursements  are  about  $1,200 
yearly  for  this  mission. 

138 


Florence  Crittenden  Anchorage  for  Girls. 

125  PLYMOUTH  PLACE. 

Object:  "To  care  for  unfortunate  girls  who  have 
been  led  astray,  and  to  protect  the  innocent  and 
friendless  from  being  led  into  the  haunts  of  sin  of 
a  great  city. " 

During  the  past  year  800  vere  admitted  to  the 
Home,  500  were  placed  in  various  positions,  75  in- 
nocent girls  were  sent  home,  3  were  married,  and 
100  young  mothers  and  babes  were  cared  for.  So.iie 
of  these  were  sent  to  hospitals,  and  when  able 
were  found  situations  with  their  babes.  No  charge 
is  made  for  board  or  other  benefits.  The  receipts 
and  disbursements  of  the  Home  are  about  $2,200 
annually. 

Talcott  Mission,   125  S.   Sangamon  St. 

A  Day  Nursery  is  conducted  by  this  Mission,  open 
from  6  A.  M.  to  7  P.  M.,  for  the  children  of  poor 
working  mothers. 

Free  Kindergarten  instruction  is  given  from  9  A. 
M.  to  12  M. 

An  Industrial  School  is  held  every  Saturday  after- 
noon,and  in  the  evening  meetings  for  the  parents  of 
the  neighborhood, who  are  often  visited  and  helped, 
placing  the  sick  in  hospitals  and  striving  to  reclaim 
the  debased. 

The  past  year  the  Home  has  accommodated  an 
average  of  33  children  daily.  Older  children  are 
often  placed  in  industrial  schools  through  the  courts. 
Last  year  the  Mission  gave  13,841  meals.  The  re- 
ceipts and  disbursements  were  about  $2,600. 

Besides  these  regular   missions,  the  Chicago  Ccn- 
139 


140          WOMAN'S  CHRISTIAN  TEMPERANCE  UNION 

tral  W.  C.  T.  U.  carries  on  several  departments  of 
work.  The  Flower  Mission  Department  sends  flowers 
to  the  hospitals  every  week. 

The  entire  cost  of  the  several  missions  carried  on 
by  the  Chicago  Central  Woman's  Christian  Tem- 
perance Union  is  about  $10,800  annually. 

The  affiliations  of  all  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  Missions 
are  Protestant.  There  are  no  endowments  and  no 
paid  solicitors.  The  work  is  supported  by  free  con- 
tributions from  friends  of  the  poor. 

The  officers  of  the  Central  W.   C.  T.  U.  are: 

MRS.  MATILDA  B.    CARSE,   President. 

MRS.  MARGARET  HOWELL,  Vice-President. 

MRS.  MINNIE  B.  HORNING,    Cor.    Secretary. 

MRS.   F.   L.  FAKE,  Rec.  Secretary. 

MRS.  ROBERT  L.  GREENLEE,  Treasurer. 

TEMPERANCE    HOSPITAL. 

1619  DIVERSEY  AVENUE. 

Object:  "To  demonstrate  the  successful  treatment 
of  disease  without  alcohol. " 

The  Hospital  was  incorporated  in  1884.  During 
1891  the  number  of  patients  taken  in  and  treated 
was  123.  There  are  conducted  in  connection  with 
the  Hospital  and  on  the  same  principles: 

A  Dispensary,  treating  365  patients  during    1891. 

The  Clara  Barton  Training  School  for  Nurses. 

The  Medical  College  Association. — There  are  no 
buildings  owned,  and  no  solicitors  employed.  The 
receipts  for  nine  months  of  1891  were  $8,587:  dis- 
bursements, $8,003.  The  support  is  from  pay-pa- 
tients, donations  and  endowments. 

MRS.  M.  E.  KLINE,  President. 

MRS.  C.  E.  BIGELOW,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  SARAH  M.    HORNBY,    Matron. 


YOUNG  WOMEN'S   HOME. 

4328  GREENWOOD  AVENUE. 

This  Home  was  opened  the  1 5th  of  January,  1894, 
the  object  being  to  protect  and  care  for  some  por- 
tion of  the  large  number  of  young  women  who  at 
that  time  had  lost  their  positions  as  clerks,  book- 
keepers, stenographers,  etc.,  through  the  financial 
cloud  which  had  fallen  so  heavily  upon  many  of  our 
business  houses. 

The  Home  is  free  to  respectable  young  women 
who  are  without  employment,  money,  or  friends  in 
the  city. 

Up  to  date,  Oct.  ist,  1894,  one  hundred  and  six 
different  persons  have  availed  themselves  of  the 
shelter  and  comfort  here  afforded.  These  have  en- 
tered and  left  as  their  needs  required.  No  servants 
are  hired,  each  member  of  the  family  bearing  her 
share  in  household  duties  and  the  care  of  the  home. 

There  is  also  a  department  opened  in  which  home- 
less young  women  and  girls  employed  on  salaries 
of  $5.00  per  week  and  under  may  be  supplied  with 
all  the  benefits  of  the  Home  (including  use  of 
laundry),  for  such  amount  as  they  can  afford,  leav- 
ing them  a  portion  of  their  small  earnings,  in  every 
case,  for  other  needful  uses. 

The  financial  accounts  of  the  Home  stand  as 
follows:  From  January  i5th,  1894,  to  October  ist: 

Receipts—  Cash  Donations $496. 85 

Receipts  for  Board  and  Lodging $10.50 

Expenditures,   $503.64;  for  rent,   $245;    for   salaries, 
$136.50;  for  other  current  expenses,   $122.14. 
Cash  balance  in  hand,  $3.71.      Balance  due  on  rent, 
$55.00.  SOPH  IK  B.   McNEAL,  Superintendent. 

141 


BENEVOLENT     DUTIES    PERFORMED    BY    THE 
DEPARTMENT  OF  CHICAGO. 


POLICE 


NAT  URK  OF  DUTIES  PERFORMED. 

1893 

1892 

1891 

1890 

1889 

Women  and  children   cared  for  by 
matrons  

20,159 

17,911 

13,160 

13,057 

1.974 

Lost  children  found   and   restored 
to  parents  

4.174 

4,692 

3,719 

2,826 

3,089 

Lodgers  accommodated  
Intoxicated  persons  assisted  home. 

88,138 
1,539 

77,o85 
2,078 
60 

55,565 
2,201 

29,402 
i,95i 

30,925 

1,417 
38 

Sick  and  injured    persons  taken  to 
hospital  

3,989 

2,908 

2,555 

1,944 

1,579 

Sick  and  injured     persons    taken 
home  

2,256 

2,113 

2,068 

2,097 

1,360 

Sick  and  injured  persons   taken   to 
station  

762 

771 

819 

685 

506 

Insane  persons  cared  for  
Destitute  pers  ons  cared  for  
Lost  children  taken  to  parents  
Mad  or  crippled  animals  killed.  .  .  . 
Abandoned      children      taken     to 

7H 
9,129 
1,461 
146 

62 

755 
1.333 
1,184 
383 

48 

661 
636 

1-539 
172 

22 

635 
622 
1,404 
129 

j 

489 
509 
1,101 
288 

6 

Inebriates  taken  to  Washingtonian 
Home  

323 

621 

2OO 

236 

IJZ 

Persons  taken   to  the  House  of  the 
Good  Shepherd  

109 

53 

58 

35 

56 

Persons  taken  to  the  Home  for  the 
Friendless   

48 

26 

9 

27 

26 

Persons  taken  to  Errings  Woman's 
Refuge  

72 

47 

25 

24 

32 

Persons   taken     to     St.    Vincent's 
Orphan  Asylum 

14 

29 

32 

16 

6 

Persons    taken      to    St.    Joseph's 

24 

I 

12 

23 

Persons  taken  to  County  Agent  
Runaway    horses    overtaken    am 
stopped  

397 
76 

269 

77 

27 
86 

I; 
9' 

26 

68 

Total  ... 

i    HV558 

112,444 

83,734 

55,267 

43,461 

Placed  in  Protestant  Institutions. 
Placed  in  Catholic  Institutions. . 


.469 
•485 


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SPECIAL  CHARITIES. 


GERMAN    SOCIETY  OF    CHICAGO. 

(BeutscbeOesellscbaft  von  Cbicago.) 

49  LASALLE  STREET. 

"The  objects  of  this  Society  are:  In  all  possible 
ways  to  assist  the  German  immigrants,  chiefly  by 
information  and  advice;  to  protect  them  by  moral 
influence,  and  if  necessary,  by  the  laws  against  ill 
treatment,  imposition  and  swindling;  to  provide  work 
for  them  and  to  assist  them  to  continue  their  jour- 
ney; to  restore  to  them  their  lost  baggage;  to  pro- 
vide for  the  sick,  free  of  charge,,  medical  advice  and 
medicine,  and  furnish  those  who  are  needy  and  in 
distress  with  material  aid,  as  far  as  the  means  of 
the  Society  will  permit. 

"Such  aid  and  assistance  shall  also, as  above  indi- 
cated, be  tendered  those  Germans  who  are  already 
residents  of  the  United  States,  and  according  to  the 
judgment  of  the  competent  officers  of  the  Society, 
such  immigrants  as  may  come  from  the  neighboring 
States  of  Germany,  and  who  have  no  representation 
here. " 

143 


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GERMAN   SOCIETY 


SUMMARY  OF  RELIEF  IN  MONEY  AND  EMPLOYMENT. 


Year. 

Families. 

ChilJren. 

Single 
Persons. 

Cash 
Expended.   Employers   Kmployees. 

1885 

241 

619 

152 

Sl.417-38 

201  1 

2354 

1886 

148 

416 

167 

806.66 

2366 

25S9 

1887 

240 

673 

221 

1,490.78 

2382 

2530 

1888 

267 

691 

I89 

1,560.91 

2197 

2249 

1889 

225 

618 

2O6 

1,318  09 

2325 

2258 

1890 

370 

981 

254 

2,160  08      2923 

3097 

1891 

445 

1162 

202 

2,008  77 

3226 

3i69 

1892 

465 

1287 

202 

2,754  43 

3457 

3353 

ih93 

5»5 

1653 

266 

3,460.96 

2852 

2577 

1894 

1068 

3204 

515 

+,7I3-58 

1180 

H73 

To  Aug. 

There  were  984  applicants  for  relief  during  1893; 
851  were  granted/  by  the  German  Society,  42  re- 
ferred to  other  benevolent  societies,  and  91  were  re- 
fused after  careful  examination  had  proved  the  ap- 
plicants to  be  regular  beggars,  idlers  or  impostors. 
Aid  was  granted  to  families  who  were  in  need  owing 
to  the  following  causes: 

Death  of  the  head  of    the  family , 119 

Death  of  the  mother 2 

Sickness  of  the  head  of  the  family . .  159 

Sickness  of  the  mother  or  children 48 

Desertion  of  the    family 61 

Want  of  means    and  work 165 

Old  age  and  infirmity 31 

TO    SINGLE    PERSONS. 

Sickness  and  inability  to  work 83 

Want  of  means  and  work 150 

Old  age  and  infirmity 33 

Coal  was  furnished  in  53  cases,  and  board  and 
lodging  paid  for  in  62  cases.  Three  sick  persons 
received  medical  aid  and  medicine,  while  23  were 
admitted  to  hospitals  through  its  agency.  Thir- 


GERMAN    SOCIETY  145 

teen  persons  received  legal  protection  and  advice, 
arid  in  three  cases  lost  baggage  was  recovered. 
Thirty-two  persons  were  recommended  to  the  County 
Agent  for  admittance  to  the  poor-house. 

There  were  received  648  letters  for  emigrants. 
The  Society  has  no  religious  affiliations,  and  is  sup- 
ported by  the  members,  of  which  there  are  about 
900,  the  annual  fees,  $4  and  upwards,  being  collected 
by  the  collector  of  the  Society.  Its  average  annual 
receipts  are  about  $5,500.  It  owns  no  buildings, 
but  $32,900  in  interest-bearing  investments. 

Extract  from  the  last  report  of  the  German  So- 
ciety: 

"There  are  many  reticent  men  and  women  who  will 
rather  starve  than  apply  for  aid,  but,  on  the  other 
hand,  there  are  still  more  who  could  very  well  earn 
a  living  for  themselves  and  for  those  who  depend 
on  them,  but  who  are  not  ashamed  to  accept  support 
from  benevolent  societies  instead  of  working,  always 
repeating  the  old  story  about  hard  times,  and  never 
providing  for  them. 

"Nothing  is  easier  and  cheaper  than  to  grant  a 
beggar  a  little  aid  without  caring  whether  he  de- 
serves it  or  not,  but  the  Society  believes  it  to  be 
its  duty  towards  its  fellow  men,  not  to  deprive  a 
worthy  poor  man  of  its  assistance  for  the  sake  of  a 
professional  beggar.  It  does  not  wish  to  increase 
the  number  of  the  latter  class  of  people  by  support- 
ing and  aiding  them.  It  thinks  it  but  just,  that  it 
thoroughly  investigate  each  case  and  give  assist- 
ance only  to  those  who  really  deserve  it;  in  order 


146  GERMAN   SOCIETY 

not  to  waste  the  resources  of   the    Society  upon  un- 
worthy persons. " 

MAX  EBEKHARDT,  President. 

GEORGE  H.   RAPP,  Vice-President. 

ADOLPH  STURM,  Secretary. 

JULIUS  WEGMANN,   Financial  S2cretary. 

CHAS.  EMMERICH,  Treasurer. 

OSCAR  KUEHNE,   Manager. 

ALFRED  SANDER,  Collector. 


Danish  Relief  Society. 

Object:  To  relieve  worthy  Danish  people.  Last 
year  the  society  collected  and  disbursed  in  cash,  in 
sums  varying  from  $3  to  $10  and  upwards,  more  than 
$1,000. 

THEODORE  WINHOLT,  President,  477  W.  Madison 
Street. 


GERMAN  OLD  PEOPLE'S  HOME. 

HARLEM,   COOK  COUNTY,    ILL. 
(ALTENHEIM.    INCORPORATED  1885,) 

WORLD'S  FAIR  MEDAL  AWARDED. 

Objects:  "To  establish  and  maintain  a  home  for 
aged  Germans. " 

The  Home  is  a  spacious  building,  accommodat- 
ing 84  inmates,  males  and  females.  There  are  also 
hospital  and  laundry  buildings.  Twenty  acres  of 
land  are  owned  and  cultivated.  "No  paupers  or  former 
inmates  of  the  Poor-house  are  admitted.  The  inmates 
of  Altenheim  are  always  led  to  feel  that  they  are  in 
their  own  Home, and  have  every  inducement  to  enjoy 
truly  and  peaceably  its  many  advantages." 

The  age  of  admission  is  from  60  years  and  up- 
wards. An  admission  fee  of  $300  is  required  for  the 
age  of  60  to  65;  $250  from  65  to  70;  from  70  to  75, 
$200,  and  any  age  above  75,  $150.  Other  conditions 
are  a  three  years'  residence  in  Cook  County,  and  a 
good  character.  It  is  regretted  that  many  worthy 
applicants  can  not  gain  admittance,  because  more 
room  and  greater  means  are  not  at  hand. 

The  support  is  from  endowments,  $71,200,  dona- 
tions, entertainments  and  the  membership  fees  of 
two  societies,  one  of  men  (Herren  Verein),  one 
of  women  (Frauen  Verein).  The  fees  are  collected 
by  a  salaried  agent.  No  solicitor  is  employed. 
There  are  no  religious  affiliations. 

Receipts  since  organization,  1883,  $249,764.35; 
disbursements,  $174,770.31.  Receipts  from  Nov., 
1892,  to  Nov. ,1893, $33, 853. oo,  including  legacy  of 
$10,000;  disbursements,  $11,958. 

147 


148  GERMAN    OLD   PEOPLE'S   HOME 

Contributors  cO  the  endowment  fund  are:  C.  Seipp, 
and  heirs;  P.  Schoenhoven;  Charles  Wacker;  A. 
C.  Hesing;  John  Buehler;  Carter  H.  Harrison; 
Gerhardt  Foremann;  Charles  Kosminsky,  and  others. 

Altenheim  was  awarded  a  medal  by  the  World's 
Fair  Commission  for  an  exhibit  of  Photographic 
Views  and  Reports  of  the  Institution,  which  gave 
"evidence  of  a  charity  well  organized  and  admin- 
istered. "  It  also  received  an  official  letter  of  thanks 
from  the  Illinois  Woman's  Exposition  Board  for  ex- 
hibits of  "Fancy  Work  and  Sewing,"  made  by  its 
old  female  inmates,  ranging  in  age  from  70  to  94. 

The  two  Societies  have  their  own  officers  and  elect 
annually  a  number  of  directors,  these  together 
forming  the  governing  Board  of  Altenheim. 

Directors  of  Frauen  Verein: 

MARIA  WERKMEISTER,  President. 
HEDWIG  Voss,  Secretary. 
AMALIE  NABROTH,  Treasurer. 
HENRIETTE  WOLTER,    Financial  Secretary. 

GUSTAVA   ROCKENER,  I  DA  BUSCHICK, 

GESINE  RAPP,  SOPHIE  HEISSLER, 

ANNA  FEHL,  MRS.  DR.  HENNING,     . 

LOUISE  LACKNER,  EI.ISE  BECKER, 

ELISABETH  COLTZAU,  MARIE  KABELL, 

CHARLOTTE  GOLLHARDT,  JOHANNE  BAUM. 

Directors  of  Herren  Verein: 

J.   C.   W.   RHODK,    President. 

GEO.   H.    RAPP,  Vice-President. 

FELIX  BUSCHICK,    Secretary. 

C.   MECHELKE,  Financial  Secretary. 

JOHN  BUEHLER,  Treasurer. 


156  .GERMAN  OLD   PEOPLED   HOME" 

A.  C.  HESING,  Louis  WAMPOLO, 

JULIUS    ROSENTHAL,  WlLLIAM  HETTICH, 

ARTHUR  ERBE,  MAX  EBERHARDT, 

J.  C.  MEYER,  C.  MECHELKE, 

JOHN  BUEHLER,  JACOB  HEISSLER, 

HENRY  GREENEBAUM,  T.  J.  DEWES, 

EDWARD  UIHLEIN,  PHILIPP  KOEHLER, 

JACOB  GROSS. 

Officers  of  the  Executive  Board: 
A.  C.   HESING,  President. 
MRS.  MABIA  WIRKMEISTER,  Vice- President. 
ARTHUR  ERBE,  Recording  Secretary. 
MRS.   HEDVVIG  Voss, Corresponding  Secretary. 
MR.  C.  MECHELKE,  Financial  Secretary. 
JOHN  BUEHLER,  Treasurer. 

GERMAN  HOSPITAL  OF  CHICAGO. 

754-756  LARRABEE  STREET. 

Object:  "To  do  the  general  work  of  a  charitable 
hospital. " 

During  1891  the  report  gives  714  as  the  total  num- 
ber of  patients  cared  for;  201  were  charity,  112  part 
pay,  and  401  pay  patients;  the  average  cost  per  pa- 
tient has  been  in  1891  $26.77.  The  work  is  sup- 
ported by  pay  patients  and  donations;  no  solicitors 
are  employed.  Officers  receive  no  remuneration. 
The  buildings  are  owned,  valued  at  $60,000.  The 
Hospital  is  without  religious  affiliations,  but  is  con- 
ducted on  Christian  principles.  Receipts  in  1891 
were  $20,666;  expenses,  $19,114. 

FRANK  F.  HENNING,  President  and  Treasurer. 

J.  C.  BURMEISTER,    Secretary. 

DR.  CHR.  FENCER,  Surgeon-in-Chief. 


HOLLAND  RELIEF  SOCIETY. 

NEDERLANDSCHE  HULP  VEREENIGING. 

This  committee  was  formed  in  January,  1894, 
elected  by  delegates  from  the  Reformed  Church  of 
Chicago.  Its  object  is  to  extend  relief  to  worthy 
Hollanders,  irrespective  of  church  connections.  They 
expended  last  winter  in  cash  for  relief,  and  transpor- 
tation to  the  Netherlands  in  the  case  of  one  very 
aged  couple  and  their  sickly  son,  upwards  of  $1,000, 
besides  distributing  clothing  and  provisions.  No 
salaries  are  paid  to  any  of  its  officers  and  no  solicitors 
are  employed. 

GEORGE  BIRKHOFF,  President,    557  W.  Adams   St. 

A.  J.  VAN   PERSYN,    Secretary. 

S.    Bus,   Treasurer. 


NORWEGIAN  RELIEF  AND  AID  SOCIETY. 

E.  STROM,  Secretary,   242  N.  Curtis  St. 

Object:  "To  extend  relief  and  aid  to  worthy  Nor- 
wegian families." 

This  Society  is  incorporated,  and  has  been  in  op- 
eration for  five  years.  It  expended  last  winter  some 
$1,500.  It  is  without  sectarian  affiliations.  No 
salaries  are  paid  to  any  of  its  officers,  and  no  solic- 
itor is  employed. 

151 


ILLINOIS  ST.  ANDREW'S  SOCIETY. 

ROOM  7,  81  S.  CLARK  STREET.      INCORPORATED  1853. 

Object:  "To  relieve  all  deserving  Scotch  with 
cash,  provisions,  clothing,  fuel  and  transportation, 
also  to  bury  their  dead  in  their  lot  at  Rosehill  Cem- 
etery. "  The  objects  of  the  Society  are  attended  to  by 
a  Board  of  Managers,  consisting  of  five  members,  of 
which  Wm.  Inglis  is  Chairman. 

Membership — None  but  Scotchmen,  or  the  sons  or 
grandsons  of  a  native  of  Scotland  shall  be  admitted 
as  members  of  the  Society.  Meetings  are  held  on 
first  Thursday  of  Feb.,  May,  August  and  Nov.  of 
each  year.  The  Society's  receipts  for  1893  were 
about  §2,000,  and  disbursements  $1,300.  The  re- 
ceipts for  the  first  nine  months  of  1894  were  $1800, 
and  disbursements  $2300.  Its  support  is  from  dues, 
donations  and  the  proceeds  of  an  annual  banquet. 

Neither  sectarianism  nor  politics  is  allowed  as  a 
test  of  membership,  nor  as  subjects  of  discussion  at 
the  meetings  of  the  Society;  no  solicitors  are  em- 
ployed; no  property  is  owned;  its  deposits  are 
invested  in  government  bonds. 

JOHN  J.  BADENOCH,   President. 

JOHN  F.  HOLMES,  Secretary. 

DUNCAN  CAMERON,  Treasurer. 

WM.  INGLIS,  Chairman  Board  of  Managers. 
152 


ST.    GEORGE'S   BENEVOLENT   ASSOCIA- 
TION. 

510  MASONIC  TEMPLE. 

"The  objects  of  this  Association,  through  its 
members,  shall  be:  To  give  advice  to  English  im- 
migrants; to  provide  for  the  social  intercourse  and 
mutual  improvement  of  its  members;  to  visit  the 
sick,  bury  the  dead,  assist  the  widows  and  orphans 
of  deceased  members,  and,  at  its  discretion,  to  grant 
relief  to  any  person  of  English  parentage,  not  mem- 
bers of  this  Association;  provided  always,  that  all 
applicants  for  relief  shall  be  of  good  moral  charac- 
ter. The  members  of  this  Association  shall  consist 
of  Englishmen,  and  the  sons  of  Englishmen." 

The  association  contains  a  membership  of  about 
250  persons,  paying  a  fee  of  $3  each.  Meetings  are 
held  on  the  first  Monday  of  each  month  at  the  Grand 
Pacific  Hotel. 

Last  year's  disbursements  for  relief  were  $142.16, 
besides  the  special  appropriations  spent  to  aid  in 
returning  English  people  home.  Employment  was 
often  secured.  No  salary  is  paid  to  any  officer  of 
the  Association,  and  no  solicitors  are  employed. 
The  Association  has  $5,000  invested  in  funds  and 
property,  the  revenues  of  which,  with  contributions 
of  its  members,  constitute  its  relief  fund.  A  valua- 
ble lot  is  owned  in  Rose  Hill  Cemetery,  where  Eng- 
lishmen dying  destitute  are  buried. 

W.    B.  JACKSON,  President. 

W.  L.  TAPSON,  Treasurer. 

C.  J.  BURROUGHS,  Secretary. 

REV.  JOSEPH  RUSHTON,  Chairman  Relieving  Com- 
mittee. 

153 


SWISS  BENEVOLENT  SOCIETY. 
(SWEITZERISCHE      WOHLT^TIGKEITS 
GESELLSCHAFT.) 

49  LASALLE  ST.,  OFFICE  OF  GERMAN  SOCIETY. 

Object:  "To  assist  (exclusively)  indigent  Swiss 
people,  either  immigrants,  or  those  born  here,  but 
of  Swiss  descent,  with  pecuniary  relief,  or  hospital 
care  and  otherwise. " 

During  1891,  122  persons  and  5  families  were 
aided  financially,  61  persons  were  given  meal  and 
lodging  tickets,  6  families  received  coal,  and  others 
shoes,  railroad  tickets,  and  loans  in  some  cases. 
To  secure  the  needed  care  for  the  sick,  an  annual 
appropriation  of  $75  is  made  to  the  Alexian  Brothers' 
Hospital.  The  "German  Society"  investigates  the 
applicants  of  the  Swiss  Society  when  desired. 

Receipts  for  1891,  $1,305;  disbursements,  $787. 
No  solicitor  is  employed.  The  support  is  from 
yearly  subsidies  from  the  different  cantons  of  the 
Swiss  Confederation — averaging  $100  a  year— and 
from  voluntary  donations  from  the  members  of  the 
Society,  ranging  from  $3  to  $20  yearly.  The  prop- 
erty owned  by  the  Society  consists  of  two  lots,  par- 
tially improved.  There  are  no  endowments  or  re- 
ligious affiliations. 

C.  BIRCHMEIR,  22  Carl  St.,  President. 

C.  E.  ZIMMERMAN,  Secretary. 

Jos.  H.  HEPP,  Treasurer. 

154 


GRAND  ARMY  OP  THE  REPUBLIC. 

Headquarters,  Room  37,  80  Washington  St. 

There  are  forty  G.  A.  R.  Posts  in  Cook  County, 
They  all  do  more  or  less  relief  work,  but  are  pa- 
triotic rather  than  charitable  organizations. 

The  total  disbursements  in  relief  throughout  the 
State  was  $10,489.25,  through  the  various  treasurers, 
and  about  $10,000  additionally  otherwise.  There 
are  623  Posts.  No  solicitors  are  employed.  There 
are  in  Chicago  no  organizations  doing  relief  work, 
in  good  faith,  for  needy  soldiers  or  their  widows  and 
orphans  other  than  the  G.  A.  R.  Posts,  the  Wom- 
an's Relief  Corps,  ladies  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  the  Sol- 
diers' Home,  and  the  Illinois  Woman's  Soldiers' 
Home. 

All  soliciting  of  funds  for  old  soldiers  is  forbid- 
den by  and  forfeits  membership  in  the  G.  A.  R.  and 
public  confidence. 

WOMAN'S  RELIEF  CORPS, 

AUXILIARY    OF  THE   GRAND  ARMY  OF  THE    REPUBLIC. 
Room  412,  70  State  St. 

Objects. 

"i.  To  specially  aid  and  assist  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  and  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of 
their  heroic  dead. 

"2.  To  assist  such  Union  veterans  as  need  our 
help  and  protection,  and  to  extend  needful  aid  to 
their  widows  and  orphans.  To  find  them  homes 
and  employment,  and  assure  them  of  sympathy  and 
friends.  To  cherish  and  emulate  the  deeds  of  our 

155 


156  WOMAN'S   RELIEF  CORPS 

army  nurses,  and  of  all  loyal  women  who  rendered 
loving  service  to  our  country  in  her  hour  of  peril 

"3.  To  maintain  true  allegiance  to  the  United 
States  of  America;  to  inculcate  lessons  of  patriotism 
and  love  of  country  among  our  children  and  in  the 
communities  in  which  we  live;  and  encourage  the 
spread  of  universal  liberty  and  equal  rights  to  all." 

Woman's  Relief  Corps  are  composed  of  mothers, 
wives, daughters  and  sisters  of  Union  soldiers, sailors 
and  marines  who  aided  in  putting  down  the  Rebel- 
lion, with  other  loyal  women. 

The  order  was  organized  as  a  national  body  at 
Denver,  Colorado,  in  1883,  with  E.  Florence  Barker 
of  Mass,  as  its  first  President,  with  a  membership 
of  less  than  fifty.  Since  that  time  there  have  been 
organized  thirty-three  departments  with  fifty-five  de- 
tached corps,  making  a  total  membership  of  139,981, 
all  working  for  the  Union  veteran  and  his  dependent 
ones.  One  of  the  most  important  features  of  the 
work  of  the  order  is  the  interest  manifested  in  the 
care  of  the  Army  Nurses,  for  whom  a  National 
Home  is  provided  and  established  at  Madison,  Ohio, 
supported  by  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  of  the  U.  S. 
The  National  W.  R.  C.  since  its  organization  has 
expended  in  relief  $1,018,560.25  of  which  during 
the  last  year  $170,584.26  was  given  in  assisting 
24,742  dependent  persons.  The  Department  of  Illi- 
nois alone  during  the  period  beginning  March  18, 
1893,  and  extending  to  May  9,  1894,  expended  $13,- 
596.20  in  relief,  exhibiting  the  growing  interest 
among  patriotic  women  in  this  work  whether  they 
are  relatives  of  the  Union  soldiers  or  not.  Twenty- 


WOMAN'S  RELIEF  CORPS  157 

five  new  Corps  were  organized  in  Illinois  during  the 
last  year,  and  applications  for  several  more  are  now 
pending.  The  officers  of  the  Department  of  Illinois 
are  as  follows: 

EMMA  R.  WALLACE,  Department  President. 

JENNIE  BROSS,   Department  Secretary. 

MARY  E.   McCAULEY,  Olney,  111.,  Treasurer. 

WOMAN'S   RELIEF  CORPS  OF  CHICAGO. 

14— John  Brown State  and  28th Mrs.  Fannie  Brown. 

78— Gen.  Silas  Casey Archer  and  Western Mrs.  Louisa  Smith. 

81— Gen.  G.  Weitzel 785  W.  Madison Mrs.  E.  E.  Bent. 

85 — Barrington Barrington  Mrs.  Lucy  Townsend. 

92— Farragut Congress  and  Honore Mrs.  M.  H.  Weston. 

.08— Abraham  Lincoln   ...3120  Forest Mrs.  Kate  Smith. 

136—0.  G.  Meade 528  63rd Mrs.  L.  L.  Allen. 

141— J.  A.  Mulligan 85  S.  Sangamon Mrs.  Cora  Antisdale. 

143— Blue  Island Blue  Island Mis.  L.  H.  Lohr. 

150— Gen.  L.  Blenker 3954  State Mrs.  J.   Sullivan. 

161— A.  E .  Burnside    South  Chicago Mrs.  Emma  Otto. 

175 — Columbia Masonic  Temple Mrs.  E.  A.  Morse. 

176— Whittier 85  E.  Madison Mrs.  M.  K.  Elliot. 

181 — Gen.  E.  Hatch 43rd  and  Emerald Mrs.  M.  A.  Connell. 

191— Dom.  Welter 2505  S.  Halsted Mrs.  Julia  Wieland. 

194 — Win.  Scott 1052  Milwaukee Mrs.  Emma  Welch. 

192— Gen.  Dan  Dustin.  .. .    Masonic  Temple Mrs.  A.  S.  Smith. 

230— L.  H.  Drury Grand  Crossing Mrs.  M.  E.  Everett. 

240— B.  P.  Butler  Irving  Park   Mrs.  Addie  Balkcom. 

247 — Chicago  Heights Chicago  Heights Mrs.  Lucy  Goff. 

249— H.  B.  Dodworth Arinitage  &  Mil'kee  Avs.Mrs.  Lettie  Coffinberry 

257— Wilcox Washington  Heights Mrs.  A.  M.  Elmendorf. 


LADIES  OF  THE  GRAND  ARMY   OF  THE 
REPUBLIC. 

G.  A.  R.  Hall. 

Object:  "To  unite  with  loyalty  to  our  country  a 
sisterly  love  and  affection  for  each  other,  parallel 
with  the  comradeship  among  the  G.  A.  R. ;  to  hon- 
or the  memory  of  our  fallen  heroes;  to  perpetuate 
and  keep  sacred  Memorial  Day;  to  assist  the  Grand 
Army  in  its  mission,  and  encourage  and  sympathize 
with  them  in  their  work;  to  aid  sick  soldiers  and 
sailors  and  their  families;  to  do  all  in  their  power 
to  alleviate  suffering;  to  look  after  the  Soldiers' 
Homes  and  Soldiers'  Orphans'  Homes,  and  see  that 
children  who  leave  the  Homes  are  provided  with 
proper  situations;  to  watch  the  public  schools  and 
see  that  the  children  and  youths  obtain  proper  edu- 
cation in  the  true  history  of  the  country,  and  in  the 
principles  of  loyalty  and  patriotism." 

The  organization,  which  is  national,  is  composed 
exclusively  of  the  mothers,  wives,  sisters,  and  daugh- 
ters of  the  Union  soldiers. 

The  support  is  from  dues,  initiation  fees,  and  vol- 
untary contributions.  There  are  no  endowments, 
paid  solicitors,  or  religious  affiliations. 

The  following  is  their  report  of  their  special  relief 
work  from  Dec.  i4th  to  March  5th,  1894  (not  in- 
cluding their  general  work  constantly  being  carried 
oa). 

158 


LADIES   OF  THE   GRAND   ARMY   OF  THE    REPUBLIC       159 

Amount    of   money    received    from  Dept. 

Commander,  comrades  and  friends..  $  99, 1 6 
Cash  and  provisions  from  Comrade  Z.  R. 

Winslow 1,123.27 

Bread  given  by  Siegel  &  Cooper,  D.  F. 

Bremner,  Halbe  Bakery    Co 6,332.75 


Total  $7,555-18 

Expended  $7,525.20.  Number  of  meals  given, 
121,798. 

MRS.  Z.  R.  WINSLOW,  Department  President,  L. 
of  G.  A.  R. 

MRS.  NETTIE  E.  GUNLOCH,  President  Relief  Com- 
mittee. 

MRS.  A.  E.   HOWE,  Secretary. 

ILLINOIS  SOLDIERS'  AND  SAILORS'  HOME. 

Quincy,  Adams  County,  111. 

Object:  "To  provide  a  home  and  subsistence  for 
honorably-discharged  ex-soldiers  and  ex-sailors  who 
enlisted  from  Illinois,  in  the  army  or  navy  of  the 
United  States  during  the  rebellion,  or  the  Mexican 
war,  or  who  have  since  become,  and  now  are  resi- 
dents of  the  State  of  Illinois,  who  may  have  become 
disabled  through  the  exigencies  of  such  service,  or 
who,  by  reason  of  old  age  or  other  disabilities,  are 
disqualified  from  earning  a  livelihood,  and  who, 
under  existing  rules,  are  unable  to  procure  admis- 
sion to  national  homes." 

One  half  of  the  current  expenses  are  borne  by  the 
United  States,  the  other  by  the  State. 

Average  number  of  inmates  during  1893-4,  5^7- 
Expenditures,  $139,707.23. 


SOLDIERS'  HOME  IN  CHICAGO. 

51  and  53  La  Salle  Street. 

The  Home  was  incorporated  by  a  special  act  of 
the  General  Assembly  of  Illinois,  Feb.  28,  1867.  In 
1879  the  Home  was  discontinued.  The  corporation 
devotes,  since  that  date,  the  income  of  its  invest- 
ments towards  relieving  honorably  discharged  and 
indigent  Illinois  soldiers  and  their  widows  and 
children.  The  relief  is  in  the  form  of  money,  from 
one  to  ten  dollars  monthly,  or  meals,  or  lodging,  or 
transportation. 

An  average  of  about  60  persons  are  aided  monthly. 
The  total  expended  for  relief  was:   in  1885,  $4,076; 
in  '86,  $3,779;    in  '87,   $4,043;    in  '88,  $3,244;  in  '89, 
$2,667;   in  '9°»  $3*251 ;    in '93, $6, 200. 10,  in  1,182  ap- 
propriations.  The  receipts  are  from  rents  and  interest 
on  investments.    The  total  net  assets  are  $103,040.50. 
No  solicitors  are  employed    and    no  salaries  paid  to 
any  one.      Disbursements  to  applicants    are  made  at 
the  general  office  of  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  So- 
ciety every  first  Saturday  of    the    month.      The   cor- 
poration is  without  religious  affiliations. 
HON.  THOS.  B.  BRYAN,  President. 
160 


ILLINOIS  MASONIC  ORPHAN'S  HOME. 

447  CARROLL  AVENUE. 

Object:  "To  provide  and  maintain,  at  or  near 
the  city  of  Chicago,  a  Home  for  the  nurture,  and 
intellectual,  moral  and  physical  culture,  of  indigent 
children  of  deceased  Freemasons  of  the  State  of 
Illinois;  and  a  temporary  shelter  and  asylum  for 
sick  or  indigent  widows  of  such  deceased  Freema- 
sons, " 

The  gth  annual  report  gives  the  number  of  in- 
mates, Jan.  31,  1894,  as  being  40,  both  boys  and 
girls,  ranging  from  4  to  16  years  of  age;  16  were 
added  and  six  dismissed,  and  3  died  during  1893 
Receipts  were  $21,548.57;  disbursements,  $8,433; 
from  board,  $1,485;  from  membership  fees,  $720; 
from  annual  charity  ball,  $6,354;  from  third  annual 
picnic,  $2,899;  from  lodges,  $2,200.  There  was  a 
balance  on  hand  of  $10,454,  and  no  debt  on  the 
Home,  which  is  valued  at  $45,000.  There  are  no 
endowments,  no  solicitors,  and  no  religious  affilia- 
tions; the  entire  control  is  vested  in  Freemasons  by 
the  articles  of  organization. 

As  the  capacity  of  the  Home  was  overtaxed,  there 
is  an  addition  being  built  at  a  cost  of  $20,000.  It 
is  45  by  105,  three  stories  and  basement.  October 
ist,  1894,  there  were  50  children  in  the  Home;  all 
but  five  were  attending  the  public  schools.  In  June 
one  graduated  from  the  grammar  school  to  become 
a  clerk  in  one  of  Chicago's  banks. 

JoriN  J.  BADENOCH,   President. 

LUDWIG  WOLFF,  Vice-President. 

WILEY  M.  EGAN,  Treasurer. 

GEORGE  W.   WARVELLE,  Counsel. 

CHESTER  S.  GURNEY,  Secretary. 
161 


CHURCH   CHARITIES. 

In  this  division  of  the  book  are  reported  the  Char- 
ities which  are  in  some  way  affiliated  with  religious 
orders  or  bodies.  In  some  cases, as  for  instance  with 
the  St.  Mary's  Industrial  School  at  Feehanville,  the 
Archbishop  is  president  ex-officio,  in  others  the 
management  is  confined  by  a  provision  in  the  Con- 
stitution wholly  or  in  part  to  the  one  or  other  of 
the  religious  sects,  and  in  still  others  the  organiza- 
tion stands  committed  to  certain  religious  forms  or 
doctrines. 

Considerable  efforts  were  made  to  glean  the  neces- 
sary data  for  a  proper  presentation  of  the  benevo- 
lent activities  of  the  Churches;  but  the  returns  have 
not  been  sufficiently  general  to  warrant  their  publi- 
cation except  along  certain  lines,  such  as  Hospitals, 
Day  Nurseries  and  Kindergartens.  No  mention  is 
made  of  Sewing  or  Industrial  Schools,  Ladies'  Aid 
Societies,  Sewing  Circles,  Charitable  Unions,  Guilds, 
Clubs,  Mothers'  Meetings,  Girls'  Friendly  Societies, 
Ministerial  Relief  Associations,  funds  for  relief  in 
the  pastor's  hands,  funds  for  retired  clergymen, 
and  for  ministers'  widows  and  orphans,  etc. 

The  year  books  of  the  various  denominations  do 
not  give  the  items  of  expenditures  on  account  of 
Charity  except  as  they  are  included  in  the  total  of 
non-denominational  contributions  in  the  column  de- 

1G2 


CHURCH   CHARITIES  163 

nominated  "Miscellaneous  Charities,"  and  "Benev- 
olences," embracing  gifts  to  Bible  and  Tract  Socie- 
ties, etc.,  as  well  as  expenditures  for  alms.  This 
column  foots  up  approximately  as  follows:  Congre- 
gational, $29,000;  Episcopal  $27,000;  Presbyterian, 
$26,000;  Methodist,  $22,000. 

YOUNG  WOMEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIA- 
TION 

Boarding  Home,  291  Michigan  Ave. 

Transient  Home,  467  Jackson  Boulevard. 

Transient  Home,  5718  Kimbark  Ave. 

Employment  Bureau,  291  Michigan  Ave. 

Traveler's  Aid  Department. 

Objects:  "To  promote  the  moral,  religious,  in- 
tellectual and  temporal  welfare  of  women,  especially 
women  who  are  dependent  upon  their  own  exertions 
for  support — a  part  of  this  work  to  consist  in  organ- 
izing homes  and  securing  employment  for  self-sup- 
porting girls,  and  those  endeavoring  to  become  such, 
and  furnishing  medical  aid  through  a  well-regulated 
dispensary. " 

"The  work  is  vested  in  a  board  of  150  members 
from  the  different  Protestant  churches  of  Chicago. 
There  are  several  committees  for  the  more  effectual 
carrying  out  of  the  work:  religious,  hospital,  em- 
ployment, visitation  of  sick,  boarding  homes,  library, 
traveler's  aid,  extension  of  the  work,  entertainments, 
educational,  building,  finance,  etc." 

The  Association  has  three  boarding  homes — Y. 
W.  C.  A.  Home,  accommodating  during  1893,  182, 


164          YOUNG  WOMEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION 

Transient  Home,  375,  and  at  the  Kimbark  Ave.  Home 
many  more.  These  Homes  daily  accommodate  from 
75  to  100  girls.  The  limit  of  time  is  one  year.  This  is 
pursuant  of  the  policy  of  the  Association  in  order 
that  a  greater  number  may  have  the  protection  of  the 
Homes  until  they  have  become  acquainted  with  the 
city.  The  number  of  admissions,  1893,  were  :  perma- 
nent boarders,  405;  transients,  1661. 

The  Employment  Bureau,  No,  243  Wabash  Ave- 
nue, furnishes  positions  for  women.  The  number 
of  situations  secured  last  year  was  1557,  but  aid  in 
other  ways  was  given  to  many  more.  The  number  of 
applications  was  4641. 

Traveler's  Aid  Department. — This  work  is  the 
daily  visitation  by  six  women  of  the  depots,  and  aid- 
ing in  any  way  needy  incoming  strangers.  Money 
and  transportation  is  often  furnished,  and  those 
who  need  the  protection  of  the  Transient  Home  are 
taken  there.  Cards  for  direction  are  posted  conspic- 
uously at  the  depots. 

The  following  extract  is  from  the  Association's 
last  report: 

"We  placed  six  women  visitors  at  our  different  de- 
pots, who  met,  in  person,  the  incoming  through 
trains  likely  to  bring  the  classes  we  wish  to  serve. 
In  this  way  we  have  gotten  hold  of  large  numbers 
of  girls  before  sinfully  disposed  persons  could  do 
so,  for  it  is  in  the  hurry  and  confusion  of  first  step- 
ping from  the  trains  that  they  are  most  easily  influ- 
enced. Our  workers,  with  blue  badge  upon  their 
breast,  stand  within  or  just  outside  the  gates  while 
the  train  unloads,  their  instructions  always  in  mind, 


YOUNG  WOMEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION         165 

"Look  for  girls  alone  or  in  suspicious  company." 
They  politely  address  the  strangers,  and  offer  aid  in 
any  possible  way.  They  acquire  wisdom  and  dis- 
crimination, tact  and  quickness  of  action.  They 
are  ready  to  help  any  woman  who  needs  help, 
often  finding  friends,  preventing  extortion  from  cab- 
drivers,  etc.,  placing  on  right  cars,  obtaining  assist- 
ance when  money  has  been  lost  or  stolen,  taking  to 
friends  who  have  failed  to  meet  them,  procuring 
care  in  case  of  illness,  etc. 

Number  aided  in  various  ways,  4,500;  number 
sent  or  taken  to  the  Homes  for  board  or  temporary 
charity  (young  women  especially  needing  such  care), 
855;  number  accompanied  to  addresses,  or  to  friends 
who  failed  to  meet  them  (young  and  ignorant  girls, 
who  might  otherwise  have  suffered),  371;  girls  res- 
cued directly  from  the  hands  of  evil  persons,  17; 
obtained  transportation  (in  whole  or  in  part  ),  93. 

Transient  Home.  —  Number  received  in  the  Home, 
May  to  January,  700.  A  large  number  have  been 
sent  to  suitable  homes,  of  which  no  record  is  kept. 
Places  filled,  200;  day  board  given  to  various  desti- 
tute ones,  725;  money,  $30;  also  a  large  amount 
of  clothing.  Several  have  been  sent  to  institutions 
where  they  properly  belong.  Many  have  been  fur- 
nished passes  or  half  rates  to  their  homes.  The  For- 
eign Consuls  and  the  City  Detective  Department 
have  sent  a  number  of  people  to  the  Home  until 
they  could  provide  for  them,  and  three  unfortunates 
have  been  sent  to  the  Insane  Asylum. 

The  receipts  of  the  Y.  W.  C.  A.  for  1891  were 
$14,396,  $5,633  being  from  donations.  The  expend- 


YOUNG  WOMEN'S  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION 

itures  were  $9,580,  the  balance  going  into  the 
building  fund. 

The  support  is  from  board  and  donations,  there 
being  no  endowments.  There  are  no  paid  solicitors. 

MRS.  LEANDER  STONE,  President. 

MRS.  A.  S.  CHAMBERLIN,  Secretary. 

MRS.  M.  E.  TRUE,  Treasurer. 


GERMAN  BETHESDA  DEACONESS'    SO- 
CIETY. 

30-32  BELDEN   PLACE. 

Object:  "To  nurse  the  sick  poor  free  of  charge, 
both  at  their  homes  and  the  hospitals,  and  to  fit  for 
such  trained  nursing. " 

Bethesda  Home  accommodates  from  35  to  40 
nurses,  all  females,  this  being  the  maximum  capac- 
ity. Trained  nurses  are  sent  to  the  sick;  those  able, 
pay  a  fair  charge  to  support,  in  part,  the  Home. 
One-third  of  the  nurses  were  so  employed. 

A  Nurses'  Training  School  is  a  part  of  the  uses  to 
which  the  Home  is  devoted.  The  Society  owns  its 
buildings,  valued  at  $30,000;  employs  no  solicitors 
—  is  supported  by  voluntary  donations.  Receipts  in 
180,1  were  about  $2,500;  disbursements  same.  Re- 
ligious affiliations  are  Protestant. 

FRANK  F.  HENNING,  President  and  Treasurer. 

HERMANN  JACOBS,  Secretary. 


KIRKLAND    FREE     ALL    NIGHT    DIS- 
PENSARY. 

in   S.    HALSTED  ST. 

Object:  "To  give  medicine  and  professional  advice 
free  of  charge  to  the  worthy  poor. " 

The  Dispensary  was  opened  in  1889;  number  of 
patients  treated  during  1890  and  '91,  5,546;  treat- 
ments, 8,494,  and  prescriptions,  8,494;  number  of 
outside  calls  made  by  the  four  Dispensary  physi- 
cians, 1,021.  There  are  nine  physicians  connected 
with  the  staff.  Office  hours  are  from  2  to  5  p.  M. 
daily,  except  Sunday. 

The  financial  management  of  the  Dispensary  and 
Mission  are  the  same,  except  that  the  Dispensary 
assumes  the  cost  of  medicine  and  medical  appli- 
ances; the  total  receipts  and  disbursements  average 
about  $6,000  a  year. 

The  Mission  is  Protestant,  but  its  benefits  are 
not  limited  on  account  of  race,  nationality  or  creed. 
It  has  no  endowments,  owns  no  property,  employs 
no  solicitors. 

DR.  Cox,  Superintendent. 


DORMITORY. 


WAIFS'  MISSION  AND  TRAINING  SCHOOL. 

44  STATE  STREET.  TELEPHONE  4910  MAIN. 

Objects: 

The    training  of 
neglected  and    va- 
grant   children     to 
habits  of    industry 
by   trade    teaching 
and  instructive  oc- 
DININGROOM.       cupations. 
Runaway  and  needy  boys  are  also   sheltered  until 
employment  or  homes  are  found  for  them,   or  until 
their  parents  are  communicated  with. 

Day  and  Night  Ragged  School. 

j — Three  sessions  daily  are  held  at 
j  the  Mission  every  week-day,  except 
1  Saturday.  The  teachers  are  supplied 
,1  by  the  Board  of  Education.  The 
1  average  attendance  is  about  30. 
Average  in  the  Home,  80  boys. 

SCHOOL  ROOM 

A  Waifs'  Sunday  School  is  held 
at  Cavalry  Armory,  on  Michigan 
Ave.  near  Madison  St.  Lunch  is 
furnished  children  and  clothing  dis- 
tributed. Average  attendance  536. 

The  work  is  undenominational. 

On  Thanksgiving,  Christmas,  New 
Year's  and  Easter  the  Mission    pro- 
vides  suitable     entertainments    and  B 
dinners  to  about  1,000  children;  on  the    last    Thurs- 
day in  June  a  picnic  is  given  by  the    Mayor's    proc- 
lamation, affording  "a    good  time"    to    some    10,000 
poor  children. 

A  laundry    also  affords  employ- 
ment for  a  number  of  the  boys. 

The  receipts  for  1893  amounted 
to  $21,832,  of  which     $5,225     was 
donated   and     $16,607    was  earned 
HLACKSMITH  SHOP,  by    the    industrial  departments. 

108 


ass; 


WaiFS*    MISSION   AND  TRAINING   SCHOOL 


169 


Summary  of  the  Mission's  report 
for  1893:  Free  meals  given,  96,403; 
free  baths  given,  11,319;  free  gar- 
ments given,  18,328;  visits  to  sick, 
1,063;  police  court  cases,  707;  boys 
admitted  to  Home,  564;  relig- 
ious services  held,  365;  employ- 
ment and  homes  found,  371;  free 
lodgings,  22,462. 


The   Training 
School. 

The  American  \ 
Youth    is   a  weekly 
paper  published  by 
the  Waifs'  Mission. 
A  number    of    boys 


LAUNDRY. 


"';••  ?.i*ji 


WAGON    SHOP. 

for  delivering 


Ji 


EXPRESS    OFFICE,   are   given    employ- 
ment in  setting  the  type  for  it, print- 
ing it,  etc.      There    is    also   a    thor- 
oughly equipped    printing   plant  for  L 
general  job  printing. 

A  pony  express 

parcels,  is  a  Mission  enterprise 
giving  employment  to  the  boys  on 
its  wagons  and  in  the  barn.  A  mes- 
senger service  is  operated  by  the 
boys.  A  blacksmith  and  wagon- 
making  shop  is  also  in  operation, 
where  boys  are  instructed  in  those 
trades. 

JUDGE     RICHARD     S.     TUTHILL, 
President. 

FRANK  E.  BROWN  (of    the  First 
National  Bank),  Treasurer. 
JAS.  E.  SlocuM,  Secretary. 
T.  E.  DANIELS,  Superintendent. 


THE  MARY  A.  AHRENS  MISSION. 
48  PECK  COURT,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Its  object:  To  give  immediate  aid  and  furnish  a 
home  for  unemployed  girls  and  women.  Immediate 
relief  given  to  women  and  children. 

This  Mission  is  a  department  of  the  "Chicago  Im- 
mediate Aid  Society, "  which  was  incorporated  the 
third  day  of  August,  1890,  and  had  for  its  object 
immediate  relief  and  aid  for  indigent  and  suffering 
people. 

December  the  nth,  Mary  A.  Ahrens,  President  of 
the  Immediate  Aid  Society,  opened  the  first  Relief 
Station  in  Chicago,  which  was  located  at  346  and  348 
Wabash  Ave. ,  and  in  the  period  of  five  weeks  and 
three  days  served  44,000  meals  to  men  and  boys, 
and  furnished  lodgings  to  over  25,000  persons. 
She  also,  furnishing  the  necessary  articles  for 
cleaning  the  streets,  set  the  men  at  work 
and  was  instrumental  in  furnishing  a  number 
of  men  with  employment,  and  assisted  others 
in  returning  to  their  homes,  located  in  other 
states. 

During  this  period  of  relief  work,  the  use  of  the 
premises,  48  Peck  Court,  was  donated  to  Mary  A. 
Ahrens,  as  a  lodging  house  for  homeless  men;  but 
recognizing  the  necessity  there  was  for  giving  relief 
and  aid  to  women  and  children,  she  had  the  house 
put  in  order,  and  by  the  help  of  friends,  it  was  fur- 
nished in  a  comfortable  manner,  and  opened  as  a 
Mission,  January  8,  1894.  The  maintenance  of 
this  Mission  is  dependent  wholly  for  its  existence 
upon  voluntary  contributions.  There  is  but  one 

170 


THE   MARY   A.    AHRNES    MISSION  17! 

paid  position,  viz.,  a  solicitor  and  agent  combined. 
The  officers  of  this  Society,  as    required     by    the 

Charter  of  "The  Immediate  Aid   Society,"  are  three 

in  number. 

The  report  ending  in  June  shows  as  follows: 
Cash  received,  $605.      Cash  disbursed,    $748. 

January,  distributed  7,000  loaves  of  bread,  and  1,100  blankets. 
Fe" 


^ebruary,  "  4,348 

March,  "  2,210 

April,  "  1,608 

May,  560 

June,  "  520 


with  meat  and  milk  most  of  the  time. 

BOARD  AND  LODGING. 

January,  board  220,  lodgings  no. 


February, 
March, 
April, 
May, 
June, 


176, 

216,  no. 

150,  "          175- 

125.  93- 

105,  "            50. 


"The  Mary  A.  Ahrens  Mission"  is  without  sec- 
tarian affiliation,  and  gives  aid  and  relief  to  all  who 
apply,  regardless  of  creed,  color,  or  nationality. 

There  are  twenty-two  (22)  beds    in    the    Mission. 

MARY  A.  AHRENS,    President. 

JENNIE  E.  SCOTT,  Secretary. 

KATHRINE  V.  GRINNELL,  Treasurer. 

ADVISORY  BOARD. 

JESSIE  B.    BISHOP,  MARY  F.  FELLOWS, 

FANNIE  A.  BLOUNT,  EMMA  L.    PARKER, 

MARTHA  C.  SWARTHOUT. 

EMMA  C.  PARSONS,  Visitor. 

S.  S.  BISHOP,  M.  D.,  Physician. 


BAPTIST  HOSPITAL. 

CENTRE  STREET  AND  RACINE  AVE. 
Object:      "To    conduct    a    general    hospital,  with 
a  staff  of  Homoeopathic    physicians."      The     institu- 
tion was  established  Sept.  29,   1891.    The  hospital  is 
Baptist  in  its  affiliations,  but  admits  patients  with- 
out reference  to  nationality,  race  or  creed.      It  owns 
no  property,    has    no  endowments    and    employs  no 
solicitors.      Patients    may  have    physicians    of    any 
school  of    practice,  as    desired,  though     the  regular 
hospital  staff  is  Homoeopathic. 

Baptist  Missionary  Training  School 

2411  Indiana  Ave. 

The  Baptist  Missionary  Training  School  is  car- 
ried on  under  the  auspices  of  The  Women's  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society,  and  is  designed  to  assist 
women  of  suitable  age  and  qualifications  to  prepare 
themselves  for  all  lines  of  Christian  work,  so  that 
they  may  render  efficient  service  as  Sunday  School, 
Church,  City,  Home  or  Foreign  Missionaries,  and 
thus  to  secure  the  Christianization  and  consequent 
purification  and  elevation  of  homes. 

The  Mission  Training  School  was  organized  in 
1881.  The  Home,  which  is  owned,  accommodates 
55  students.  One  day  a  week  is  devoted  to  visiting 
from  house  to  house  in  the  most  neglected  parts  of 
the  city,  nursing  the  sick  and  relieving  the  poor, 
hoHing  industrial  schools, and  children's  and  moth- 
ers' meetings,  Besides  this,  there  are  religious  and 
temperance  features  of  work. 

MRS.  C.  D.  MORRIS,  Preceptress. 

172 


CATHOLIC  CHURCH  CHARITIES. 

Alexian  Brothers'  Hospital. 

559-569  N.   Market  St. 

"The  objects  of  the  Order  of  the  Cellite  or  Alex- 
ian Brothers  are  to  nurse  the  sick,  take  care  of  lu- 
natics, and  bury  the  dead."  It  was  founded  during 
the  great  plague  of  the  fourteenth  century  It  con- 
ducts the  hospital,  admitting  only  male  patients, 
excepting  for  prescriptions  in  its  dispensary. 

The  total  number  treated  in  the  hospital  during 
1891  was  2,243 —Catholics,  1,258;  Protestants,  865; 
number  paying  full  rates,  1,114;  partial,  302;  char- 
ity patients,  827;  brought  by  patrol,  260;  discharged 
as  cured,  1,408;  improved,  393;  unimproved,  65; 
died,  150;  brought  in  dying  condition,  53;  remain- 
ing in  hospital  Dec.  31,  1891,  174. 

No  financial  statements  are  made  public.  The 
religious  affiliations  are  Catholic.  Three  of  the 
Brothers,  of  whom  there  are  twenty-eight,  are 
"solicitors  of  contributions." 

BR.  IGNATIUS  MINKENBERG,  President. 

BR.  JOSEPH  MARX,  Treasurer. 

BR.  ANDREW  MAYER,  Rector. 

Chicago  Industrial   School  for  Girls. 

49th  Street  and  Indiana  Ave. 

Objects:  "To  provide  a  home  and  proper  train- 
ing school  for  such  girls  as  may  be  committed  to  its 
charge,  and  to  train  and  educate  them  so  as  to  be- 
come good  and  useful  women." 

In  1894  there  were  160  dependent  and  some  board- 
ing children.  Fifteen  sisters  were  in  charge.  The 
County  Commissioners  make  annual  appropriations 
of  some  $10,000. 

GEO.  W.   SMITH,  President. 
173 


CATHOLIC    CHARITIES 

HOUSE  OF  THE  GOOD  SHEPHERD 

N.  W.  Cor.  Market  and  Hill  Sts. 

Objects:  The  reclamation  and  reformation  of  fallen 
women,  and  protection  of  children. 

During  the  year  1893  there  were  486  women  and 
girls  in  the  institution.  Of  that  number  147 
returned  to  friends,  63  were  placed  in  service  with 
families  and  8  died.  The  institution  is  supported 
by  the  labor  of  the  inmates,  consisting  of  laundry 
and  needlework,  by  voluntary  contributions,  and  by 
a  portion  of  the  city  fines,  which  in  1893  amounted 
to  $1920.07.  Total  receipts  $37,284.95.  Disburse- 
$37,034.48.  It  owns  its  property,  covering  the 
block  enclosed  by  Market,  Sedgwick,  Elm  and  Hill 
Sts.  The  control  is  vested  in  the  Catholic  Church 
but  abandoned  women  and  destitute  children  are 
received  regardless  of  creed,  race  or  nationality. 

MOTHER  MARY   OF  THE  CROSS,  President. 

SISTER  ANNUNCIATION,  Treasurer. 

Guardian  Angel  Orphan  Asylum. 

High  Ridge,  Cook  County,  Illinois. 

During  1891  the  Asylum  took  in  85  and  dis- 
charged 54  children — 309  were  cared  for  altogether. 
At  the  close  of  the  year  there  were  255  children  in 
the  Asylum.  Seventy  infants  were  cared  for,  202  of 
school  age  and  37  above  14  years  of  age,  one  a 
cripple  and  one  an  imbecile.  In  September,  1894, 
there  were  16  sisters  in  charge,  and  210  orphans  in 
attendance. 


CATHOLIC   CHARITIES  175 

The  older  boys,  through  labor  on  the  farm,  raised 
in  1891,  3,000  bushels  of  potatoes,  115,000  heads  of 
cabbage,  50  tons  of  hay,  etc. ;  the  girls  aided  in 
cooking,  baking,  laundrying,  sewing,  knitting,  etc. 

The  receipts  from  the  farm  were  $1,998;  from  do- 
nations, $683;  total,  $3,015.  Disbursements,  $2,- 
970.  For  262  orphans,  26  German  Catholic  churches 
paid  board  to  the  amount  of  $3,001.  The  religious 
affiliations  are  Catholic— the  German  congregations 
of  the  archdiocese  of  Chicago. 

FERD.  KALVELAGE,  President. 

A.  WOLF,  Treasurer. 

VEN.  SISTER  M.  B.\RTHOLOMAE,  Superintendent. 

Holy  Family  Orphan  Asylum    (Polish  and  Bo- 
hemian). 

Cor.  Holt  and  Division  Sts. 

The  Orphanage    is    in    charge    of    the    Sisters  of 
Notre  Dame.      There  were  190  orphans  in  1894. 
SISTER  HUGOLINA,  Superior. 

Home  for  Working  Boys,  and  Mission  of  Our 
Lady  of  Mercy. 

363  W.   Jackson  St. 

The  attendance  is  about    75  boys    on  an    average. 
D.  S.  MAHONEY,  Director. 

Industrial  School  for  Girls  (Polish). 
130  W.  Division  St. 

The  attendance  in  1894  was  80  children  in  charge 
of  four  Sisters  of  the  Holy  Family  of  Nazareth. 
SISTER  M.  LAURETTA,  Superior. 


176  CATHOLIC    CHARITIES 

"Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor." 

Three  Homes  are  conducted  by  "Little  Sisters  of 
the  Poor"  for  aged  poor.  They  are  maintained  by 
charity,  the  sisters  going  out  and  collecting  funds 
and  assistance  in  the  form  of  clothing,  food, etc. 

NORTH-SIDE  HOME  FOR  AGED  POOR,  Cor.  Sheffield 
and  Fullerton  Aves.,  cared  for  175  aged  persons  dur- 
ing 1891;  an  average  of  140.  Twelve  Sisters  are  in 
charge. 

SOUTH-SIDE  HOME  FOR  AGED  POOR,  Cor.  5ist 
Street  and  Prairie  Ave.,  cared  for  60  aged  persons 
during  1891;  an  average  of  50. 

WEST-SIDE  HOME  FOR  AGED  POOR,  Cor.  Harrison 
and  Throop  Sts. ,  cared  for  130  aged  persons  Sep- 
tember, 1894;  an  average  of  132.  Twelve  Sisters 
are  in  charge. 

The  inmates  are  received  for  their  lifetime. 

No  financial  statement  is  made  in  the  reports. 

The  North-Side  and  West-Side  Homes  are  owned, 
the  South-Side  has  rented  accommodations.  Each 
Home  is  in  charge  of  a  "Mother  Superior." 

Mercy  Hospital. 

Twenty-sixth  St.  and  Calumet  Ave. 

Object:      "To  care  for  the  sick." 

It  is  conducted  by  the  "Sisters  of  Mercy."  The 
number  of  patients  admitted  during  1891  is  1,700 — 
free  of  charge,  550;  fixed  pay  and  part  pay,  1,150. 
Receipts  for  1891  were  $48,392;  disbursements, 
$48,392.  The  institution  is  self-supporting  from 
charge  patients.  It  is  affiliated  with  the  Catholic 


CATHOLIC   CHARITIES  177 

Church.      There  are  37  Sisters  of   Mercy    in  charge, 
and  about  200  patients  in  1894. 
MOTHER  RAPHAEL,   Superior. 

House  of  Mercy. 

A  home  for  distressed  women  of  good  character 
adjoins  the  hospital.  There  were  about  75  inmates 
in  1894. 

SISTER  M.  ANGELICA,  Superior 

St.  Joseph's  Home 

409  S.    May  St. 
HOME  FOR  WORKING  GIRLS. 

Object:  "Principally  to  give  help  and  protection 
to  respectable  young  working  girls." 

The  average  number  in  the  Home  is  200;  400 
transients  were  received  during  last  year,  and  helped 
in  various  ways.  The  work  is  a  private  benevo- 
lence, and  self-supporting  by  means  of  laundrying, 
dress-making,  etc.  No  financial  report  is  made 
public. 

The  Industrial  School  is  in  charge  of  the  ladies 
of  the  Sacred  Heart.  The  attendance  is  forty. 

The  School  for  Deaf  Mutes  aims  to  care  for  and 
train  deaf  mutes.  It  was  opened  in  1894  and  has 
1 20  pupils,  80  boarding  in  the  institution,  a  sepa- 
rate building, but  on  the  grounds.  It  is  maintained 
in  part  by  the  bequest  of  the  late  Peter  Schoenhoffen 
and  voluntary  contributions. 

The  Home  for  the  Friendless  receives  and  cares 
for  temporarily  homeless  women  and  girls. 

Miss  E.  CAUGHLAN,  Superior. 


178  CATHOLIC  CHARITIES 

St.  Joseph's  Orphan  Asylum. 

(Incorporated  1872). 
Cor.  35th  St.  and  Lake  Ave. 

Object:      "To    protect,     support,  and    educate  in- 
digent children  in  the  city  of  Chicago." 

During  the  past  twenty-seven  years  it  has  shel- 
tered and  educated  several  thousand  children.  In 
1894  there  were  250  girls.  It  is  conducted  by  1 1 
Sisters  of  the  Congregation  of  St.  Joseph,  who  have 
their  mother-house  in  South  St.  Louis,  Mo.  It  is 
under  the  charge  of  different  English  speaking 
Catholic  churches  of  the  city,  all  of  which  contrib- 
ute to  its  support,  while  Archbishop  Feehan  gives 
it  his  especial  attention.  The  enrollment,  Septem- 
ber, 1894,  was  309.  Board  is  charged  when  the  par- 
ents or  guardian  is  able  to  pay.  The  girls  are  given 
a  share  in  the  housework.  Receipts  during  1891, 
$10, 106;  disbursements,  the  same.  It  has  no  en 
dowments,  owns  durable  brick  buildings,  and  spa- 
cious grounds. 

M.  MATILDA,  Superintendent. 

St.  Joseph's  Hospital. 

360  Garfield  Ave. 

Object:      "The  care  and  treatment  of  the  sick." 
There    were    80  patients  September,     1894.       The 
average  number  of  patients  during  1891  was  70;   en- 
larged present  capacity,  250.      The  report   estimates 
that  two-thirds  are  pay,    and    one-third   charity    pa 
tients.     The  former  class  is  the  main  support  of  the 
institution.      It  was   founded  in    1871,  is    conducted 
by  the  "Sisters    of    Charity   of    St.  Joseph,"  and    is 


CATHOLIC    CHARITIES  IJ9 

Catholic  in  its  affiliations.  It  owns  its  buildings, 
the  additions  and  improvements  of  1890  costing 
$130,000,  which  was  covered  in  part  by  a  $10,000 
legacy  from  Conrad  Seipp. 

"SISTER  M.  ELIZABETH,  "   Superintendent. 

St.  Joseph's   Providence  Orphan  Asylum. 

Crawford  Ave. ,  near  Belmont  Ave. 

Object:  "To  shelter  and  instruct  in  the  branches 
of  a  common-school  education  homeless  boys  under 
twelve  years  of  age. " 

There  are  four  teachers.  The  report  is  as  follows: 
Number  of  boys  in  the  Home,  200;  number  received 
during  last  year,  100;  number  for  whom  homes  were 
provided,  72;  average  annual  receipts,  $6,859.  Dis- 
bursements last  year,  $6,859.  The  property  owned 
is  a  large  four-story  brick  building  and  several  acres 
of  land,  the  title  and  control  being  vested  in  the 
Sisters  of  St.  Joseph,  a  Catholic  order. 

SISTER  DOMINICA,   Superior. 

St    Peter's  Catholic  Day  Nursery  and  Kinder- 
garten. 

451  S.  Clark  St. 

This  combined  Day  Nursery  and  Kindergarten 
was  established  by  the  St.  Peter's  (R.  Catholic) 
Church.  The  average  attendance  is  about  30.  There 
are  also  some  ten  half-orphans  boarding  there,  and 
these,  with  the  tuition  charged,  are  the  principal 
support  of  the  work. 

Receipts  and  disbursements  for  1893-4  were 
$1,500. 


l8o  CATHOLIC   CHARITIES 

St.  Mary's  Training  School  for  Boys. 

Feehanville,  111.      On  the  Wis.  Central  R.  R. 

Object:  "To  care  for  and  teach  some  useful  em- 
ployment to  indigent  and  wayward  boys. " 

In  September,  1894,  there  were  400  pupils  and 
16  "Christian  Brothers"  in  charge.  Cook  County 
Commissioners  appropriate  approximately  $12,000 
annually  for  100  boys,  or  $120  per  capita.  The  ex- 
penditures for  1893  were  $26,552,  the  per  capita  cost 
being  a  little  over  $60.00.  The  average  number  of 
boys  are  400.  The  school  is  in  large  part  self-sus- 
taining. 

The  receipts  from  private  boarders  were  in  1891 
$7>^°5;  from  donations,  $122;  from  farm  produce, 
$4,588;  from  dairy,  milking  46  cows,  and  from 
poultry,  $3,435.  The  institution  owns  its  farm  of 
440  acres  through  which  the  Desplaines  River  flows. 
The  site  is  picturesque.  The  water  is  supplied  by 
an  artesian  well.  Manual  and  literary  training  alter- 
nate each  half  da}'. 

Net  assets,  $80,149.  No  ^aid  solicitors  are  em- 
ployed. The  religious  affiliations  are  Catholic. 

ARCHBISHOP  P.  A.  FEEHAN,  President  ex-officio. 

JAS.  BURKE,  Acting  President. 

REV.   P.  J.    MULDOON,  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 

"BROTHER  LEO,"   Director  and  Superintendent. 


CATHOLIC   CHARITIES  l8l 

Visitation  and  Aid  Society. 

Room  500  and  501,  34  Washington  St.,  Venitian 
Building. 

Object:  "To  visit  public  and  private  eleemosynary 
institutions  and  assist  temporally,  spiritually  and 
educationally  the  inmates;  to  place  destitute  chil- 
dren in  homes;  to  obtain  employment  for  deserv- 
ing persons,  and  to  engage  in  other  charitable  work.  " 

The  Society  in  its  Fifth  Annual  Report  (1893-4) 
gives  the  number  of  visits  made  to  the  infirmary 
as  154;  number  of  visitors,  954;  number  of  religious 
services  held  in  institutions,  143;  number  of  books 
distributed,  9,000.  It  interested  itself  in  1,505 
children;  returned  297  to  relatives,  and  placed  in 
Homes  and  Institutions  602;  otherwise  improved 
the  condition  of  608.  Employment  was  obtained 
for  298  persons,  transportation  for  197;  otherwise 
assisted  by  securing  for  them  nurses,  physicians, 
relief,  etc.,  3,252.  Its  receipts  were  $2,107;  ex- 
penditures, $2,569.  Two  Jesuit  Fathers  assist  the 
Society  in  its  spiritual  work. 

The  Society  employs  a  visitor  and  a  clerk;  no 
solicitors.  One  of  its  agents  is  paid  and  detailed 
by  the  Police  Department.  The  visitor  and  Police 
agent  attend  the  Police  Courts  to  take  charge  of 
dependent  children  and  families.  The  Society  owns 
no  property;  has  no  endowments;  is  supported  by 
contributions  from  members  and  friends.  The  So- 
ciety affiliates  with  the  Catholic  church,  its  officers 
and  visitors  being  mostly  Catholic. 

T.  D.   HURLEY,  President. 

P.  T.  GILLESPIE,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  THOMAS  F.  QUINLAN,  Secretary. 


St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital. 
Cor.   Davis  and  Le  Moyne  Streets. 

Objects:  "The  Poor  Handmaids  of  Jesus  Christ, 
in  whose  charge  the  hospital  is,  are  banded  together 
to  nurse  the  sick  and  poor  in  private  houses  and 
hospitals. " 

There  were  800  patients  nursed  last  year;  467 
were  discharged  recovered,  65  improved,  77  unim- 
proved, and  101  died — 30  having  entered  in  a  dying 
state.  There  were  nursed  free  of  charge  271  pa- 
tients, 470  paid  full  rates  and  57  partial. 

The  average  annual  receipts  are  $32,947.62;  dis. 
bursements  for  1891,  $80,478. 54.  The  support  is 
from  "soliciting,"  Mr.  Martin  Ryerson's  "charity 
trust,"  and  pay  patients.  The  assets  are  the  block 
of  five  acres  on  which  the  hospital  is  located,  and 
buildings  valued  at  $250,000.  The  affiliations  are 
Catholic.  It  is  in  charge  of  22  Sisters. 

SISTER  M.  POLYCARPA,  Sister  Superior. 
182 


CATHOLIC  CHARITIES  183 

St.  Vincent's  Infant  Asylum. 
191  La  Salle  Ave. 

Objects:  "To  care  for  foundlings  and  destitute 
children  under  six  years  of  age;  also,  to  accommo- 
date poor  mothers  with  their  infants." 

A  portion  of  the  building  is  fitted  up  as  a  lying- 
in  department,  which  is  entirely  private.  The  capac- 
ity of  the  home  is  200;  average  number  of  children, 
150.  In  September,  1894,  there  were  150  infants,  25 
patients.  A  Kindergarten  with  40  boys  and  100 
girls,  in  charge  of  2  teachers.  The  children  are  dis- 
posed of  in  some  cases  by  being  returned  to  their 
relatives,  in  others  adopted  into  private  families,  and 
still  others  transferred  to  the  Orphan  Asylum  when 
seven  years  of  age.  The  annual  cost  is  $12,000;  the 
grounds  are  valued  at  $25,000;  buildings,  $75,000; 
furniture,  $8,000.  The  support  is  from  boarders, 
legacies,  donations,  and  proceeds  of  lectures  and  en- 
tertainments. The  benefits  of  the  asylum  are  extend- 
ed to  mothers  and  children  of  all  denominations. 
The  religious  affiliations  are  Catholic,  it  being  con- 
ducted by  the  Sisters  of  Charity  of  St.  Joseph. 

SISTER  M.  JULIA,  Superior. 

St.  Francis'  House  of  Providence. 

Cor.  Market  and  Elm  Sts. 

Object:  "To  furnish  a  home  for  ladies  with  or 
without  employment." 

It  is  in  charge  of  16  sisters  of  the  Franciscan 
order.  There  is  here  also  a  Home  for  unemployed  girls. 

SISTER  M.  EMILIA,  Superior. 


EPISCOPAL  CHARITIES. 
St.  Luke's  Hospital. 

Dispensary. 
Training  School. 
Diet  School. 

Objects:  "To  provide  for  the  sick  and  poor  and 
to  maintain  a  hospital  therefor  in  the  city  of  Chica- 
go, Illinois,  under  the  control  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church." 

The  following  statement    shows    the  work    for  the 
year  ending  October  i,   1893: 
The  number  of  patients  remaining  Oct.   i, 

1892 114 

The  number  of  patients  admitted  during 

year 1 748 


Total 1862 

Total  number  discharged: 

Cured,  61    per  cent 1128 

Improved,   17  per  cent 323 

Unchanged,  6  per  cent 114 

Died,  8  per  cent 152 


Total 1717 

Remaining  October  i,   1893,  8  per  cent...  145 

DISPENSARY. 

The  following  were  the  number  of  cases  treated  in 
the  Dispensary  free  of  charge  to  applicant: 

Surgical 2141 

M  edical 1629 

Gynaecological 1 209 

Eye  and  Ear 552 


Total 553 1 

184 


EPISCOPAL  CHARITIES  185 


RESUME. 


Patients  treated  in  the    Hospital 1862 

Patients  treated  in  the  Dispensary 553 1 


Total  number  of  patients  treated  7393 
The  number  of  free  patients  admitted  was.  ..  68g 
The  number  of  pay  and  part  pay  was i°59 


Total   admitted 

The  number  of  hospital    days    devoted  to 

free  patients  was 19,818 

The  number  of  hospital    days  devoted  to 

pay  and  part  pay  was 24, 115 

Total  number  of  hospital  days 43>933 

RECEIPTS. 


Churches $  3,041.21 

Support  of  beds 9, 178.83 

Donations  from  Individuals  7,147.13 

Board 26,673.19 

Training  School 1 ,225.22 

Clinic  tickets 40.00 

Material  sold 40.25 


Charity  Ball  4,944.65 

St.  Luke's  Annual 2,301.87 

Rents:  The  Clinton,  net 15,810.76 

All  other  rents 1,109.45 

Diet  kitchen  fund 81.21 

Total $71,627.79 


Training  School  for  Nurses. — The  number  in  the 
School,  as  given  in  the  8th  annual  report,  is  42;  39 
were  admitted  as  probationers  during  1893,  and  600 
applicants  refused.  The  demands  on  the  school  for 
special  nurses,  both  from  private  individuals  and 
hospitals,  is  increasing,  and  greatly  exceeds  the  sup- 
ply. Receipts  from  nurses'  earnings,  $1,546.46; 
special  expenses  on  account  of  school,  $174,48.  The 
lot  adjoining  the  hospital  on  the  north  has  been 
bought  for  a  Home  for  the  nurses  with  a  legacy  of 
$25,000. 

Diet  School. — The  object  is  to  thoroughly  instruct 
the  trained  nurses  in  the  art  and  science  of  cookery. 


l86  EPISCOPAL  CHARITIES 

No  solicitors  are  employed.  The  religious  affilia- 
tions are  with  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church. 

ARTHUR  RYERSON,  President. 

JOSEPH  T.  BOWEN,  Vice-President. 

FREDERICK  T.  WEST,  Secretary. 

N.  K.  FAIRBANK,   Treasurer. 

REV.  J.  W.  VAN  INGEN,  Superintendent. 

St.   Mary's  Mission  House. 

213-215    Washington    Boulevard. 

Objects:  "Helping  and  visiting  the  sick  and 
poor;  having  Bible  classes  and  mothers'  meetings." 

The  House  is  connected  with  the  Cathedral  SS. 
Peter  and  Paul  (Protestant  Episcopal).  It  is  in 
charge  of  the  "Sisters  of  St.  Mary, "  who  live  on  the 
third  floor,  the  other  floors  being  devoted  to  guilds 
and  mothers'  and  girls'  meetings. 

A  Free  Dispensary  is  conducted  in  the  basement, 
being  open  for  three  days  a  week. 

St.  Mary's  Home  for  Children. 

221  Washington  Boulevard. 

This  Home  was  opened  Sept.  18,  1894.  It  is  part 
of  the  Mission  and  under  the  charge  of  the  sisters. 
Six  children  are  in  the  Home.  It  can  accommodate 
15  children. 

A  Boys  and  Girls'  Guild  meets  twice  a  week;  a 
Sewing  Class  for  Girls  on  Saturday  afternoons. 
Domestic  service  is  also  taught  to  girls. 

The  property  is  owned;  no  solicitors  are  em- 
ployed; there  are  no  endowments,  and  no  salaries 
are  paid. 

REV.  GEORGE  D.  WRIGHT,  Minister-in-charge. 

"SISTER  FRANCES,"   Sister-in-charge. 


EPISCOPAL  CHARITIES  187 

St.  James'  Church. 

PHK  ST.   JAMES'  DAY    NURSKRY. 
268  Superior  St. 

It  reports  that  it  is  now  entering  upon  its  third 
year  and  presents  an  encouraging  record  of  the  work 
it  is  accomplishing  among  poor  women  and  their 
little  children. 

From  month  to  month  there  has  been  a  steady 
increase  in  the  number  of  children  cared  for,  and 
the  amount  of  employment  supplied  to  needy  moth- 
ers. The  doors  of  the  Creche  are  opened  each  morn- 
ing at  6:30.  and  the  matron,  with  her  assistant,  re- 
ceives the  little  ones.  After  a  breakfast  of  warm  milk 
and  bread,  they  go  to  the  play-room,  where  the 
younger  children  pass  a  happy  day  with  their  play- 
fellows and  their  toys.  At  8:30  the  older  children 
are  taken  by  the  nurse  to  the  Moody  kindergarten 
— an  arrangement  having  been  made  with  the  teach- 
ers to  receive  them  during  the  morning  session. 
This  provides  them  with  schooling,  and  greatly 
lightens  the  cares  of  the  matron.  At  noon  the  nurse 
calls  for  them  and  brings  them  home,  where  a  din- 
ner of  meat,  potatoes  or  rice  and  bread  is  served. 
At  5:30  they  have  a  supper  of  mush  and  milk,  and 
by  7  o'clock  they  are  all  once  more  with  their 
mothers.  The  average  daily  attendance  of  children 
has  been  nine,  making  a  total  number  for  the  year 
of  2,806.  The  matron  has  supplied  many  of  the 
mothers  with  work,  this  being  an  important  feature 
of  the  Day  Nursery. 


188  EPISCOPAL    CHARITIES 

Receipts,   1893. 

Balance,   Nov.    1 892 $  644. 69 

From  Mothers 1 88. 66 

Dues  and  Subscriptions 564. 75 

Tea  Party  Sales 6.00 

Charity  Fund 15-°° 

Tableaux 219.55 


Total  Receipts $1,638.65 

Expenditures $1,435.19 

MRS.  PERRY  H.  SMITH,  President. 

MRS.  T.  W.   GROVER,   Treasurer. 

ALICE  G.   KERFOOT,   Secretary. 

Convalescents'  Home. 

4333  Ellis  Avenue. 

Objects:  "The  Home  has  been  incorporated  to 
provide  a  comfortable  and  inexpensive  resting  place 
for  invalids  who  are  well  enough  to  leave  the  hos- 
pitals, but  not  yet  strong  enough  to  resume  life's 
burdens. " 

The  society  pays  for  these  accommodations  at 
the  rate  of  $25  a  month,  the  beneficiary  being  en- 
couraged to  return  this  when  able. 

The  Protestant  Episcopal  church  has  the  work  in 
charge,  but  the  benefits  are  not  limited  as  to  race, 
creed  or  nationality. 

The  society  has  the  use  of  a  cottage  for  working 
women  and  girls,  accommodating  20  persons,  on  a 
lake  near  La  Porte,  Indiana. 

REV.  DR.  WALTER  DELAFIELD,  President. 

GEN'L    JOSEPH  STOCKTON,  Vice-President. 

CHAS.  M.   FLACK,   Secretary. 

C.   R.   LARRABEE,  Treasurer. 

Also  a  board  of  lady  managers. 


Church  Home  for  Aged  Persons. 

4327   Ellis   Avenue. 

Object:  "To  provide  a  quiet,  comfortable  home, 
the  daily  companionship  of  others  in  the  same 
sphere  of  life,  and  kind  watchfulness  and  care  for 
such  persons  as  have  been  accustomed  to  the  refine- 
ments of  life,  but  who  have  outlived  their  friends, 
lost  their  means  of  support,  or  in  other  ways  become 
dependent. " 

189 


igo  EPISCOPAL  CHARITIES 

i 

I.  Church  Home  for  Aged  Ladies. 

The  Home  was  incorporated  Aug.  22,  1890.  One 
room  has  been  endowed  at  a  cost  of  $5,000  by  the 
Church  of  the  Transfiguration;  a  second  by  Mrs. 
Ruben  Taylor. 

The  total  receipts  for  1893  were  $4,648.22;  dis- 
bursements, $4,324.22.  Net  assets,  $25,000;  liabili- 
ties, $4,000. 

II.   Church  Home  for  Aged  Gentlemen. 

This  Home  forms  a  part  of  the  same  block  of 
buildings  with  and  is  adjoining  the  Orphans'  and  the 
Old  Ladies'  Homes.  It  was  opened  Aug.  ist,  1894. 
The  property  is  valued  at  $25,000,  on  which  there 
is  still  a  debt  of  $19,000. 

It  aims  to  accommodate  aged  and  destitute 
merchants,  clergymen,  artists,  literary  men,  etc.  The 
cost  of  endowing  a  room  is  $5,000. 

The  admission  fee  for  life  inmates  is  $500.  Some 
are  taken  temporarily  free  of  charge,  or  for  board. 
The  Home  is  under  the  direct  supervision  of 
the  Episcopal  church — its  board  of  managers  and 
trustees  being  Episcopalian  by  the  requirements  of 
its  charter,  and  subject  to  the  supervision  of  the 
bishop  of  the  diocese.  There  are  no  paid  solicitors 
or  endowments,  the  support  being  mainly  from  vol- 
untary donations. 

REV.  DR.  WALTER  DELAFIELD,  President, 

CHAS.  W.   BREGA,    Vice-President. 

O.  W.   BALLARD,  Treasurer. 

A.  J.   BRADFORD,   Secretary. 

Also  a  board  of  lady  managers. 


CHURCH    HOME    FOR    ORPHANS. 


IQ2  EPISCOPAL  CHARITIES 

Church  Home  for  Orphans. 

4331  Ellis  Avenue.  Incorporated  Sept.,   1892. 

Objects:  "The  care  of  orphan  and  half-orphan 
children. " 

The  Home  is  owned  by  the  corporation.  There 
are  no  endowments,  the  support  being  from  volun- 
tary contributions.  The  Protestant  Episcopal  church 
has  charge  of  the  work,  but  the  benefits  are  not 
limited  on  account  of  race,  nationality  or  creed. 

The  Home  has  accommodated  50  children  during 
1893.  The  policy  is  to  care  for  the  children,  charg- 
ing board  when  relatives  or  friends  are  able  to  pay, 
but  otherwise  to  place  them  out  in  private  homes 
as  soon  as  practicable. 

The  receipts  for  1893  were  $1,621.66;  disburse- 
ments, $1,601.29. 

JREv.  DR.  WALTER  DELAFIELD,  President. 
COL.  GURDON  S.  HUBBARD,  JR.,  Vice-President. 
COLLINS  H.  JORDAN,  Vice-President. 
RICHARD  H.  WYMAN,  Secretary. 
IRA    P.  BOWEN,    Treasurer,    Continental    National 
Bank. 


LUTHERAN  CHARITIES. 

Uhlich's  Evangelical  Lutheran  Orphan  Asylum. 

Burling  and  Center  Streets. 

Object:  "The  support  and  education,  first,  of 
the  orphans  of  the  First  United  Evangelical  Luth- 
eran Church  of  Chicago,  and  of  orphans  of  such 
Evangelical  Lutheran  Churches  of  Chicago  as  the 
corporation  may  see  fit  to  admit.  The  board  of 
trustees  must  be  members  of  the  above  named 
church. " 

The  Asylum  sheltered  during  1891,33  appears  from 
its  22nd  annual  report,  123  children,  45  being  ad- 
mitted during  the  year  and  31  dismissed.  The  av- 
erage number  in  the  Home  was  84,  and  the  cost  per 
capita  $2  per  week  There  was  no  death,  excepting 
that  of  the  Superintendent.  About  30  of  the  chil- 
dren are  entire  orphans;  for  the  others,  the  half- 
orphans,  board  is  paid  by  their  parents—  from  75 
cents  to  $1.50  per  week.  The  receipts  were  $12,045; 
disbursements,  $10,741.  The  Asylum  is  supported 
mainly  from  the  income  of  the  land  (60  lots)  be- 
queathed by  Carl  Uhlich  in  1869,  which  it  leases.  It 
receives  but  small  donations;  has  no  solicitors. 

WM.   KNOKE,  President. 

C.  A.  HERRMANN,   Superintendent. 

JOHN  L.  DIEZ,  Treasurer. 
193 


194  LUTHERAN    CHARITIES 

Augustana  Hospital. 

Corner  Lincoln    and    Cleveland    Avenues,   Chicago. 

Objects:  "The  training  of  well-qualified  nurses, 
the  establishment  and  support  of  a  hospital,  the 
care  of  the  aged,  the  education  of  the  young,  and, 
in  general,  the  exercise  of  mercy  among  the  suffer- 
ing." (Charter  Feb.  14,  1892.) 

The  report  from  Oct.  15,  1893,  to  Oct.  15,  1894, 
is  as  follows: 

Patients  treated  during  the  year,  522.  Total 
number  of  days  of  treatment,  11,585.  Days  paid, 
7,877.  Part  paid,  2,284.  Charity  days,  1,424;  pay 
patients,  393;  part  pay,  62;  charity,  67;  cured,  324; 
improved,  105;  unimproved,  25;  died,  31;  surgical, 
320;  medical,  202.  Admitted  since  opening,  1,732. 

A  Training  School  for  nurses  was  established  re- 
cently as  a  department  of  the  work  of  the  Hospital. 

The  Hospital  has  only  one  room  endowed,  and 
reports  that  it  is  utterly  unable  to  do  the  charity 
work  which  appeals  to  it.  There  is  an  encumbrance 
of  $60,000  on  the  property,  which  is  valued  at 
$200,000. 

The  Hospital  is  owned  and  controlled  by  the 
Illinois  Conference  of  the  Swedish  Lutheran  Church. 
It  is  supported  by  voluntary  contributions,  and  by 
receipts  from  patients.  No  solicitors  are  em- 
ployed. 

REV.    S.    G.   OHMAN,    Superintendent. 

DR.   A.  J.  OCHSNER,    Surgeon-in-chief. 

REV.  M.  C.   RANSEEN,   President. 

REV.  C.  A.  AVALD,  Secretary. 

THEO.  FREEMAN,  Treasurer. 


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ig6  LUTHERAN   CHARITIES 

Danish  Lutheran  Children's  Home. 

69  Perry  Street. 

Object:  "To  support  and  care  for  children  of 
Danish  parentage  who  are  orphans  or  destitute. " 

The  Home  shelters  33  children;  is  in  charge  of 
a  matron  and  two  assistants;  occupies  a  three-story 
building,  the  top  floor  being  devoted  to  the  nursery. 
An  adjoining  lot  is  owned  and  used  for  play  ground. 
It  is  open  to  orphans  and  half  orphans  of  Danish 
parents  from  all  parts  of  the  United  States. 

Last  year's  receipts  and  disbursements  amounted 
to  $2,200.  The  Home  is  supported  by  voluntary 
contributions  from  members  of  the  Danish  Evangel- 
ical Lutheran  church  of  U.  S.  A.,  in  which  its  con- 
trol is  vested. 

MRS.  MARTHA  OLSEN,  Mother. 

Doard  of  Directors. 

REV.  THEO.  HELVIG,       MRS.  FREDERIKA  D.  HANSEN. 
MRS.  C.  W.  HANSEN,  Treasurer,  615  W.  Indiana  St. 


METHODIST  CHARITIES. 

Chicago  Deaconess'  Home 

227   E.   Ohio   St. 

Object:  "To  organize,  promote  and  maintain  the 
work  of  women,  banded  together  to  devote  their 
whole  time  and  strength  to  good  works,  errands  of 
love  and  mercy,  without  remuneration  except  to  re- 
ceive their  support  at  the  Home." 

The  aim  is  to  instruct  and  train  for  the  work 
of  visiting  among  the  poor,  and  to  direct  it  through 
careful  superintendence.  The  Deaconesses  fit  them- 
selves for  the  work  by  an  elementary  course  in  med- 
icine and  nursing  when  visiting,  and  when  nursing 
Deaconesses,  through  a  full  course  in  a  training 
school  for  nurses.  The  Home  is  supported  by  volun- 
tary contributions.  No  charges  are  made  for  services, 
since  these  are  rendered  to  the  destitute.  The  last 
report  shows:  Receipts  for  one  year,  from  Apr.  10, 
'93,  to  Apr.  10,  '94,  $5,000.36;  disbursements, 
$4,723.74.  Receipts  for  "emergency  fund,"  $1,610; 
disbursements,  $1,519.54. 

Much  of  the  work  is  spiritual.  Among  its  philan- 
thropic features  are :  Number  of  sick  nursed  in 
their  homes,  196;  number  of  calls  on  the  sick,  1,528; 
number  of  days  spent  in  nursing  sick  in  their  homes, 
800^— nights,672;  number  of  garments  given  away, 
17,440;  baskets  of  food,  1,202;  bouquets  of  flowers, 
3,126.  The  number  of  Deaconesses  living  in  the 
Home,  not  including  teachers  or  students  or  those 
engaged  in  hospital  work,  is  18.  The  society  owns 
its  building,  has  no  endowments  or  paid  solicitor. 

197 


I  98  METHODIST   CHARITIES 

Its  affiliations  are  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  It  owns  Rest  Cottage. 

The  finances  are  managed  by  the  Chicago  Dea- 
coness Aid  Society. 

Miss  C.  ADDIE  BROWN,   President. 

Miss  LAURA  M.   HYNE,  Treasurer. 

MARY  JEFFERSON,  Superintendent. 

Methodist  Deaconess'  Orphanage. 

Lake  Bluff,   111. 

Object:  "To  care  for  destitute  children  and  to 
furnish  a  Home  for  the  needy;  to  educate  them  and 
find  them  when  required  permanent  homes. " 

The  orphanage  is  a  building  containing  18  rooms, 
two  stories  with  attic  and  basement.  It  can  ac- 
commodate 75  children  and  is  designed  as  the  main 
building  for  a  group  of  cottages  to  be  erected  when 
needed.  There  are  spacious  grounds,  with  shade 
trees  and  wide  verandas.  The  whole  is  the  gift  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  Hobbs. 

The  orphanage  is  in  charge  of  the  Methodist 
Deaconesses  whose  headquarters  are  at  their  home, 
227  E.  Ohio  St. 

The  work  was  commenced  in  1893  in  a  rented 
home,  the  Deaconess'  Rest  Cottage  on  the  present 
grounds 

MRS.  J.  B.  HOBBS,  343  La  Salle  Ave. 


METHODIST    CHARITIES  199 

Halsted   St.    Mission. 

7788.   Halsted  St.,   Cor.   2oth. 

Industrial  Classes. 
Information  Bureau. 
Kitchengarten. 
Free  Kindergarten. 

These  lines  of  charitable  work  are  conducted  in 
and  in  connection  with  the  Halsted  Street  Mission 
(M.  E.).  (Organized  in  1866.)  The  Mission  aims 
to  be  a  benevolent  center  for  that  part  of  the  city. 
In  it  the  Relief  and  Aid  Society  has  had  one  of  its 
branch  offices  for  two  years. 

The  Industrial  classes  embrace  printing, shorthand 
and  typewriting,  drawing,  telegraphy,  and  needle 
and  fancy  work.  Average  attendance,  237. 

The  Kitchengarten  instructs  larger  girls  in  all 
kinds  of  housework  and  housekeeping.  The  aver- 
age attendance  is  26. 

The  Kindergarten  is  in  session  five  days  in  the 
week,  and  has  an  average  attendance  of  more  than 
73  pupils. 

The  Information  Bureau  seeks  to  supply  male  help. 
Besides  these  departments  there  is  a  course  of  free 
lectures  given  in  the  winter  on  social  and  moral 
questions,  also  free  stereopticon  entertainments. 

The  Mission  is  conducted  in  a  building  owned  by 
the  Chicago  Home  Missionary  and  Church  Exten- 
sion Society  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  but  encumbered 
$12,000. 

Receipts    and    disbursements  on    account    of    the 


200  METHOD! .jT    CHARITIES 

Kindergarten  last  year  were  $600,  and  on  account 
of  the  industrial  work,  $450.  The  support  is 
from  voluntary  donations. 

CHAS.  K.  TROY,  Treasurer,   Metropolitan  Bank. 

D.  J.  HOLMES,   Minister. 

ADVISORY   BOARD. 

G.  W.  SWIFT,   Stock  Yards. 

E.  G.   KEITH,   Pres.    Metropolitan  National  Bank. 
N.  W.  HARRIS,   of  N.   W.   Harris  Co.,  Bankers. 
W.  A.  FULLER,  of  Palmer,  Fuller  Co.,  Mfgrs. 

J.  B.  HOBBS,  Secretary,  Pres.  Com'l  Loan  and 
Trust  Bank. 

PKRLEY  LOWE,  of   Perley  Lowe  Co.,    Lumbermen. 
T.  WILCE,   of  T.   Wilce  Co.,  Lumbermen. 

Wesley  Hospital. 
Cor.    25th  and  Dearborn  Sts.      (Incorporated   1888.) 

Objects:  "The  gratuitous  treatment  of  the  medic- 
inal and  surgical  diseases  of  the  sick  poor." — Char- 
ter, Sec.  2. 

In  its  present  building,  which  is  owned,  there  are 
accommodations  for  30  patients  and  the  nurses. 

Receipts:  from  board,  $3, 041;  from  subscriptions, 
$4,070;  total,  $7,816.  Expenditures,  $7,480.  En- 
dowment, $1,000,  by  Mrs.  Susannah  L.  Brown. 

No  conditions  of  race,  creed  or  nationality  are 
imposed  on  its  beneficiaries,  though  the  hospital 
affiliates  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  a 
provision  of  its  by-laws  being  that  seven-tenths  of 
its  trustees  shall  be  of  that  communion. 

W.  H.    RAND,  President. 

M.  P.   HATFIELD,  Secretary. 
|N.  W.  HARRIS,   Treasurer. 

REV.  DR.  ODGERS. 


METHODIST    CHARITIES  2OI 

The  Epworth  House- 
N.  W.  Corner  Halsted  and  Congress  Streets. 

The  Epworth  House  is  an  Evangelistic  Social 
Settlement.  It  is  under  the  direction  of  an  organi- 
zation known  as  the  "Forward  Movement."  It  was 
established  March  4th,  1894,  after  the  general  plan 
of  a  work  known  as  the  Oxford  House,  founded  in 
London  by  Hugh  Price  Hughes,  and  the  University 
settlements.  It  affiliates  with  the  Episcopal  Leagues 
of  the  M.  E.  Church. 

Object:  "Its  aim  is  to  establish  a  center  of  moral 
reform  in  the  most  neglected  sections  of  the  city  of 
Chicago,  where  there  can  be  provided  a  creche,  a 
Christian  kindergarten,  free  dispensary,  medical  at- 
tendance, industrial  schools, a  night  school,  a  reading 
room,  lecture  courses,  preaching  services,  Sunday 
schools,  a  system  of  visitation  which  will  give  thor- 
ough information  as  to  the  needs  of  the  community, 
and  in  brief,  where  there  can  be  utilized  any  form 
of  applied  Christianity  which  may  seem  practicable 
in  winning  the  people  to  a  better  life." 

The  Medical  Department  gives  medical  advice  and 
medicines  to  the  neighboring  poor. 

The  Kindergarten  was  opened  at  the  House, 
March  12. 

The  Lunch  Counter  is  established  and  lunches 
are  served  not  to  realize  profits,  but  rather  for  pur- 
poses of  hospitality  and  good  fellowship.  Food  and 
drink  is  offered  at  cost  and  sometimes  given  away, 
to  offset  the  free  lunch  counters  of  the  saloon. 

The  Musical  Department  gives  both  vocal  and  in- 


202  METHODIST  CHARITIES 

strumental  music  for  the  entertainment  of  the  passer- 
by and  strangers. 

Sewing  Schools  teach  the  girls  of  the  neighbor- 
hood sewing. 

The  Bureau  of  Information  aims  to  bring  the  em- 
ployer in  relation  to  the  man  or  woman  who  seeks 
work. 

A  Reading  Room  is  also  opened  to  make  possible 
access  to  the  better  literature  of  the  day. 

A  Legal  Advice  Department,  where  the  poor  can 
get  freely  and  without  charge,  legal  information  is 
also  open. 

There  are  in  the  House  from  four  to  ten  visitors, 
the  main  reliance  being  on  personal  contact  at  the 
homes  of  the  people  in  the  neighborhood,  especially 
to  reach  in  this  way  the  children.  The  residents  of 
the  House  are  without  salaries  and  donate  their  ser- 
vices. The  Home  is  dependent  on  voluntary  contri- 
butions. 

CHARLES  E.  PIPER,    President. 

N.  J.   HARKNESS,    Secretary. 

JOHN  R.   LINDGREN,  Treasurer. 

GEO.  W.  GRAY,  D.   D.,  Superintendent. 

EXECUTIVE    COMMITTEE. 

G.  W.  CHAMBERLAIN,  L.  N.  MOVER, 

C.  N.  GARY,  J.  F.  BERRY, 

E.   A.    SCHELL. 


THE  PRESBYTERIAN  HOSPITAL  OF  THE 
CITY  OF  CHICAGO. 

Cor.  Congress  and  Wood  Sts.    (Chartered  April  18, 
1872.) 

Maternity. 

Convalescent  Home. 

Throat  and  Chest  Department. 

Objects:  "To  afford  surgical  and  medical  aid  and 
nursing  to  sick  and  disabled  persons  of  every  creed, 
nationality  and  color. " 

The  eleventh  annual  report,  1893,  shows  the  fol- 
lowing: 

Patients  remaining  March    31,   1893 201 

Patients  admitted  during  the   year        1,834 

Total 2,035 

203 


204  PRESBYTERIAN    CHARITIES 

Patients  remaining  March  31,    1894 208 

Patients  discharged    cured 1,362 

Patients  discharged  improved 279 

Patients  discharged  unimproved 24 

Patients  not  treated 63 

Patients  died 99 


Total 2>°35 

Number  days  of  treatment 72,452 

Number  of  days  of  attendance 548 

Per  centum  of  deaths  to    number   treated..  .  .         4.8 

Number  admitted  this  year  1893-94,  2,035,  as 
against  2,131  of  last  year,  whereas  there  were  72,452 
days  of  treatment  as  against  previous  year  of  72,270. 
Of  the  days  of  treatment  48,470  were  pay  and  part 
pay,  and  23,982  were  free. 

The  daily  average  of  free  patients  was  sixty- six, 
65  beds  being  endowed;  pay  and  part  pay  were  132, 
making  total  daily  average  198. 

The  lowest  number  of  patients  for  any  one  day 
was  107;  the  highest  228.  Since  the  opening  of  the 
Hospital,  in  August,  1884,  it  has  cared  for  over 
12,000  patients. 

The  treasurer's  report  shows  the  cost  of  administra- 
tion for  the  year,  to  be  $90,732.14,  and  expenses  for 
interest,  insurance,  taxes,  etc.,  $5,438.40,  making 
a  total  of  $96,190.54. 


PRESBYTERIAN   CHARITIES  205 

Receipts  from  donations  were $4,340.28 

Receipts  for  free  beds 8,250.00 

Receipts  from  interest  on  endowment  funds 

and    other  sources 9,679.45 

Receipts  from    pay  patients  , 68, 677. 72 

Expenditures 90,947.45 

Wages  and  nursing 34,560.81 

Supplies 5i,547-i5 

Expenses 9,479.47 

Repairs 603. 1 1 


Total $96, 190. 54 

The  Maternity  Department  occupies  a  separate 
building,  and  is  deemed  a  successful  departure. 

The  Convalescents'  Home  gives  relief  by  being 
more  homelike  than  any  hospital  can  be  made. 

The  Throat  and  Chest  Department.  This  class 
of  diseases,  it  is  claimed,  are  better  treated  when 
isolated  in  a  building  by  themselves. 

The  support  of  the  Hospital  is  from  endowments, 
amounting  to  $161,602,  donations  and  receipts  from 
patients;  no  solicitors  are  employed.  The  buildings 
are  owned.  The  religious  affiliations  are  Presby- 
terian. 

REV.  JOHN  L.   WITHROW,  D.   D.,  President 

ERNEST  A.   HAMILL,   Vice-President,  j 

GEORGE  W.   HALE,  Treasurer. 

W.  A.  DOUGLASS,  Secretary. 

J.  A.   ROBISON,   M.  D.,  Assistant  Secretary. 


UNIVERSALIST  CHARITIES. 

Church  of  the    Redeemer. 

2581  Austin  Ave. 
Talcott  Day  Nursery. 
Talcott  Kindergarten. 
Sewing  School. 

These  charities  are  connected  with  the  Church  of 
the  Redeemer  (Universalist). 

The  average  daily  attendance   for    1891    was  44  at 
the  Nursery,    40  at  the    Kindergarten,     and  5  at  the 
Sewing  School.      The  average     annual     expenses  are 
about  $3,300.      All  garments    the    children    make  are 
donated  to  them.    The  teachers  of  the  Sewing  School 
are  from  among  the  members  of  the  church. 
MRS.  A.   E.   CLARK,  President. 
MRS.   MARK   SHERWOOD,  Treasurer. 

St.  Paul's  Church. 
Prairie  Ave.    and  3Oth  St. 
Free  Kindergarten. 
Industrial  School. 

These  charities  are  conducted  in  connection  with 
St.  Paul's  (Universalist)  Church,  in  its  chapel,  in 
the  rear. 

The  Kindergarten  has  an  average  attendance  of 
60  scholars.  A  principal  and  four  assistants  are  in 
charge,  the  latter  being  furnished  by  the  Free  Kin- 
dergarten Association;  annual  cost,  $712. 

The  Industrial  School  has  sessions  every  Saturday 
morning,  from  October  until  May,  with  an     average 
attendance  of  129,  and  an  annual  cost  of  $712.    Sat- 
urday-evening classes  in  dress-making  are  also  held 
the  cost  being  $59,   and  the    average    attendance    n. 

A.  J.    CANFIELD,  Minister. 
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UNITARIAN  CHARITIES. 
Church  of  the  Messiah. 

Kitchengarten,  Church  Parlors,  23rd  St.  and 
Mich.  Ave. 

Herford  Kindergarten,  406  22nd  St. 

These  charities  are  conducted  and  supported  by 
the  Church  of  the  Messiah  (Unitarian-Congrega- 
tional) and  its  Ladies'  Aid  Society.  The  Kitchen- 
garten aims  to  give  instruction  to  children  who 
would  otherwise  not  learn  the  best  methods  of 
elementary  housekeeping.  The  three  classes  held  last 
year  comprised  an  average  of  70  pupils;  to  each  class 
one  and  a  half  hours'  instruction  was  given  weekly 
for  four  months.  The  receipts  and  disbursements, 
1891,  were  $196. 

The  Herford  Kindergarten  had  an  average  atten- 
dance of  55  children.  The  receipts  and  disburse- 
ments of  the  Kindergarten  are  about  #900. 

MRS.  J.  C.  LONG,  Treasurer. 

REV.  W.  W.  FENN,   Minister. 

Third  Unitarian  Church. 

N.  W.  Corner  Monroe  and  Laflin  Streets. 
Kindergarten. 
Relief  Room. 

The  Kindergarten  in  this  church  has  an  average 
attendance  of  25  pupils. 

The  church  has  for  some  time  past  furnished  office 
room  to  the  West  Side  branch  of  the  Relief  and  Aid 

Society. 

J.  VILA  BLAKE,  Minister. 

207 


Unity  Church  Industrial  School. 

80  Elm  St. 

Industrial  School 
Day  Nursery. 
Kindergarten. 

Objects:  "To  help  the  very  needy  of  the  North 
Side,  especially  the  little  girls  who  wander  about  the 
streets,  begging.  " 

It  was  opened  in  1876  by  the  members  of  Unity 
Church,  and  a  few  years  later,  through  a  bequest  of 
$20,000  by  Eli  Bates  to  the  trustees  of  Unity 
Church,  the  ground  and  buildings  were  provided, the 
property  and  management  being  vested  in  this 
church,  which  also  supports  the  enterprise  mainly. 
The  departments  of  work  are: 

208 


UNITARIAN    CHARITIES  2OQ 

Sewing  School,  Saturday  mornings,  with  an  aver- 
age attendance  of  175  girls.  The  children  are  given 
the  garments  they  make. 

Cooking  Classes. of  ten  pupils,  in  rotation,  are  also 
held — "a  popular  feature."  Two  girls  are  constantly 
in  training  as  nurse  girls.  A  cooking  class  for  older 
girls  and  women  was  also  held  one  evening  a  week 
last  winter.  Two  evenings  a  week  were  devoted  to 
boys'  clubs.  A  mothers'  class  was  held  in  the 
afternoon.  During  the  summer  months,  when  the 
public  schools  are  closed,  the  school  is  open  daily, 
and  lessons  are  given  in  cooking,  sewing  and  calis- 
thenics, and  the  attendance  is  full. 

The  Day  Nursery  accommodates  daily  from  10 
to  20  infants. 

The  Kindergarten  has  one  paid,  and  4  assistant 
Kindergarten  teachers.  The  average  attendance  is  45 
each  day. 

The  average  annual  expenditures  are  about  $2,500 
-  last  year's,  $2,796.49.  There  are  no  endowments 
or  solicitors. 

MRS.   J.  W.  HOSMER,  President. 

MRS.  THOMAS  F.  GANE,  Secretary. 

MRS.  H.  B.  STONE,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  J.  Q.  SEWELL,  MRS.    J.   L.  BREWER, 

MRS.  HERBERT  WADSWORTH,       MRS.  WM.  McFADON, 
MRS.  WM.  E.  FURNESS,  Miss  HANNAH  FRENCH. 


210  CHURCH    CHARITIES 

All  Souls  Church. 
Cor.  Oakwood  Boul.   and  Langley  Ave. 

Kindergarten. 

Manual  Training-  School. 

Relief  Station,  3210  Wall  St. 

These  charities  are  conducted  in  and  in  connec- 
tion with  All  Souls  Church,  for  the  benefit  of  the 
children  of  the  neighborhood.  A  charge  of  25  cents 
per  week  is  made  for  attendance  on  the  Kindergarten 
when  parents  are  able  to  pay,  otherwise  a  friend 
assumes  the  cost.  The  average  attendance  is  20, 
for  the  past  four  years,  at  the  Kindergarten,  and  at 
the  Manual  Training  School  14.  The  receipts  and 
disbursements  are  about  $630.  In  connection  there 
is  a  free  Reading  Room  and  Library. 

The  Manual  Training  School  held  classes  in  me- 
chanical drawing  and  Sloyd  in  the  winter,  and  has 
a  full  outfit  of  tools. 

The  Relief  Department  was  opened  in  a  section 
of  the  Stockyards  population  where  the  bread-winners 
were  almost  all  out  of  work  and  great  destitution 
prevailed.  It  was  in  close  co-operation  with  the 
Central  Relief  Association,  which  furnished  it  with 
supplies. 

RECEIPTS    OF    WALL    STREET     RELIEF   STATION. 

Oakland  School,  Room  5 $0.95 

Forestville  School 9.00 

All  Souls  Church  members 195. 20 

Individuals  outside  the  church 225.00 

Dramatic  Entertainment 166.50 

Through  Dr.  Julia  R.    Low 254.50 

Central  Relief  Association 749.25 

Total $1,600.40 


CHURCH   CHARITIES  211 

This  was  disbursed  in  the  form  of  provisions, 
clothing,  and  coal,  by  the  Superintendent,  Dr.  Hel- 
len  A.  Heath.  Twenty-five  friendly  visitors  from 
the  church  aided  in  investigation  and  otherwise. 

MRS.  ELLEN  T.  LEONARD,  Treasurer. 

REV.  JENKIN  LLOYD  JONES,  Minister. 

CONGREGATIONAL  CHARITIES.* 
The  Workers'  Creche. 

3007  Butler  St. 

This  Crdche  was  opened  in  1892,  and  is  now 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Plymouth  Church  of  Chi- 
cago (Congregational).  It  cares  during  the  day  for 
the  infants  of  mothers  who  are  compelled  to  go  out 
to  work. 

REV.  FRANK  GUNSAULUS,  D.  D.,  Minister  of  Ply- 
mouth Church. 

*The  Congregational  as  most  of  the  other  Protestant  Churches  conduct 
their  philanthropic  activities  along  nnsectarian  and  purely  philanthropic 
lines  and  make  therefore  but  a  small  showing  in  their  organic  denominational 
capacity. 


UNITED  HEBREW  CHARITIES  OF 
CHICAGO. 

Relief  Office,  223  26th  St. 
Employment  Bureau,  223  26th  St. 
Michael    Reese      Hospital,     29th     St.    and 
Groveland  Ave. 

Dispensary,  2gth  and  Groveland. 
Training-  School,  apth  and  Groveland. 

"The  object  is  to  provide  a  permanent,  efficient 
and  practical  mode  of  administering  and  distribut- 
ing the  private  charities  of  the  Israelites  and  others 
*  of  Chicago;  to  put  into  practical  and  efficient  oper- 
ation the  best  system  for  relieving  and  preventing 
want  and  pauperism  among  the  Jewish  poor  of  said 
city;  to  assist  and  aid  the  sick,  the  widow,  and  the 
orphan;  to  purchase,  lease,  or  otherwise  procure 
lands  and  buildings  for  the  maintenance  and  conduct 
of  hospitals,  widow  and  orphan  asylums,  homes 
for  the  aged  and  infirm,  and  any  other  similar  insti- 
tutions, and  to  perform  whatever  act  or  thing 
may  be  necessary  or  proper  to  relieve  the  wants  and 
needs  of  the  Jewish  poor  and  others  in  such  manner 
as  may  be  deemed  best. " 

"Any  Hebrew  society  declaring  its  intention  to 
co-operate  with  this  Association,  and  contributing 
to  the  funds  of  the  Association  not  less  than  $50 
per  annum,  shall  be  entitled  to  the  privilege  of 
membership  in  this  Association." 

Relief  Office,  223  26th  Street. — The  principal  work 
of  this  department  is  to  make  its  beneficiaries  self- 

212 


HEBREW  CHARITIES  213 

supporting.  It  reports  40  regular  pensioners,  receiv- 
ing from  $5  to  $20  per  month,  or  a  total  of  $4,700 
during  1893.  Clothing,  medical  care,  burials  and 
cash,  in  amounts  varying  from  $5  to  $100  and  up- 
wards, are  expended  on  the  applicants  of  the  Society. 
Transportation,  wl\en  beneficial,  is  furnished;  2,949 
residents  and  185  transients  were  ^  assisted  during 
1893;  215  cases  were  aided  with  transportation  at  a 
cost  of  $2,376.  The  receipts  for  this  department 
were  $27,138.62;  disbursements,  $28,817.27. 

Employment  Bureau,  223  26th  St.  — D  uring  1892- 
93,  966  asked    for,  and  870  received  work. 

The  United  Hebrew  Charities  are  under  one  finan- 
cial management;  they  embrace  these  component 
societies:  The  Hebrew  Congregations  of  Sinai  ($11,- 
"462),  Ansche  Mayriv  ($3,730),  Zion  ($2,343),  North 
Side  ($823),  B'nai  Sholem  ($335).  The  Lodges, 
Ramah  ($50),  Hillel  ($74),  Maurice  Mayer  ($50), 
Johannah  ($150),  Russian  Refugees'  Aid  Society 
($3,693).  North-Side  Ladies'  Sewing  Society  ($50), 
Jewish  Charity  Association  ($50),  and  Young  Men's 
Hebrew  Charity  Association  ($7,400).  The  general 
support  is  mainly  from  voluntary  donations — in  part 
from  endowments,  $132,600  being  placed  in  interest- 
bearing  investments.  No  solicitors  are  employed. 
The  property  owned  consists  of  an  office-building, 
at  223  26th  Street,  Michael  Reese  Hospital,  and 
a  part  of  Ridge  Lawn  Cemetery. 


Michael  Reese  Hospital. 

2gth  Street  and  Groveland  Ave. 

This  Hospital  is  under  the  control  of  "The  United 
Hebrew  Charities."  It  cared  for  1,072  patients  dur- 
ing 1893;  of  these  257  were  non- Jewish  pay,  116 
non-Jewish  charity  patients,  99  Jewish  pay,  and 
600  Jewish  charity  patients;  60  were  brought  by  the 
Police  Patrol.  Number  discharged  as  cured,  658; 
improved,  211;  incurable,  17;  left,  38;  died,  68; 
remaining,  78;  daily  average,  69;  average  length 
of  stay,  23  days.  Money  received  from  pay  patients, 
$13,932.50.  Total  receipts  for  Hospital,  $44,986.66; 
disbursements,  $37,551.08. 

Dispensary.  Number  of  treatments,  7,673 — 1,289 
patients;  number  of  prescriptions  for  patients  outside 
of  Hospital,  5,687  on  account  of  charity. 

Training  School  for  Nurses  This  department  of 
the  Michael  Reese  Hospital  was  established  Sep- 
tember, 1890.  Last  year  there  were  a  superintend- 

214 


HEBREW   CHARITIES  21^ 

ent,  3  head  nurses,  23  pupils,  2  probationers,  and 
70  applications.  They  attend  to  the  wants  of  the 
Hospital  patients.  The  Nurses'  Home  contains  a 
maternity  ward.  Classes  and  lectures  are  held.  The 
earnings  of  the  nurses  were  $1,530.50. 

ISAAC  GREENFELDER,  President. 

MAURICE  ROSENFELD,    Treasurer. 

CHARLES  HAFTER,  Financial  Secretary. 

FRANCIS  A.  Kiss,  Superintendent. 

The  Northwest  Charity  Association. 

500  Milwaukee  Ave. 

Object:  "To  relieve  worthy  Hebrew  families  re- 
siding in  the  northwest  part  of  the  city." 

The  organization,  though  independent,  affiliates 
with  the  United  Hebrew  Charities.  It  was  organ- 
ized and  incorporated  in  1890,  and  gives  relief  in 
money.  Its  receipts  and  disbursements  amounted  to 
$1,500  in  1893.  It  is  with  Hebrew  affiliations; 
employs  no  solicitors  or  other  salaried  agents  and 
has  no  endowments. 

MAURICE  DROSDOWITZ,  President. 

JOSEPH  GOLDWATER,  Treasurer. 

MAX  BROWN,  Secretary. 


2l6  HEBREW   CHARITIES 

Jewish  Training  School. 

91  Judd  St. 

Object:  "It  shall  be  the  aim  of  this  Association 
to  enable  poor  Jewish  children  to  become  useful 
members  of  society  by  teaching  them  the  elements 
of  skill,  habits  of  cleanliness  and  order,  thus  devel- 
oping within  them  a  feeling  of  self-respect  and  self- 
reliance.  It  is  the  purpose  of  this  Association  to 
maintain  and  carry  on  a  school  for  boys  and  girls 
under  the  age  of  18  years  in  the  nature  of  a  Kinder- 
garten, a  Girls'  Sewing  School  and  Kitchengarten, 
and  a  Manual  Training  and  Trade  School  for  boys 
and  girls. 

The  School,  which  was  founded  in  1890,  has  a 
Kindergarten,  a  Primary  and  a  Grammar  Depart- 
ment. The  Manual  Work  is  conducted  as  an  art 
and  mechanical  department.  The  latter  embraces 
modeling,  free  hand  drawing  and  designing.  The 
mechanical  department  comprises  Sloyd  work,  card- 
board, wood,  and  machine  work,  and  sewing,  fitting 
and  drafting,  domestic  economy,  cooking  and  house- 
hold duties.  German,  gymnastics,  and  music  are 
also  taught.  There  are  also  large  ungraded  classes. 
No  charges  are  made  for  tuition.  The  annual  cur- 
rent expenses  average  about  $20,000. 

Owing  to  the  increase  of  immigration  from  Rus- 
sia and  other  foreign  lands,  the  Ungraded  Classes 
have  always  been  crowded.  Many  children  who 
came  to  the  school  directly  from  Russia  have  in  less 
than  two  months  been  advanced  into  the  fifth  or 
sixth  grades. 


HEBREW 


The  founder  of  the  School,  Leon  Mandel,  gave 
$20,000.  This  sum  was  added  to  by  others  until 
the  property  now  represents  a  value  of  $75,000. 

HENRY  L.  FRANK,  President. 

MRS.  LEVY  MAYER,  Vice-President. 

RABBI  JOSEPH  STOLTZ,  Recording  Secretary. 

HERMAN  HEFTER,  Financial  Secretary. 

LEO  Fox,  Treasurer. 

GABRIEL  BAMBERGER,  Superintendent. 

DIRECTORS. 

DR.  E.  G.  HIRSCH,  MRS.  M.  LOEB, 

MRS.  E.  MANDEL,  MRS.  C.  WITKOWSKY, 

W.    N.    ElSENDRATH,  MRS.    FLORA    KAHN, 

A.  KOPPERL,  MRS.  M.  ROSENBAUM, 

L.  SCHLESINGER,  MRS.  C.  STETTENER. 

MRS.  JAMES  ROSENTHAL. 


SALVATION  ARMY. 

Relief  Depot,  558  W.  Madison  Street. 
Dispensary,  558  W.  Madison  Street 
Slum  Post,  4i  Dussold  Street. 
Slum  Post,  396  S.  Clark  Street. 

The  Relief  Station  of  the  Salvation  Army,  at  its 
headquarters, distributed  in  the  form  of  provisions  and 
clothing  during  the  winter  of  1893-4,  to  a  value  of 
about  50  cents  three  times  a  week  to  each  of  30  fam- 
ilies. On  Christmas  2,500  persons  were  given  dinner. 

Total  Meals    given 1 1,080 

Total  Garments  given 4,261 

Total  Sick  cases  nursed 333 

The  Dispensary  was  opened  Jan.  i,  1894,  and  is 
conducted  principally  for  members  of  the  Army,  at 
an  expense  of  about  $50.00  a  month  for  medicines, 
etc.  It  is  in  charge  of  a  member  of  the  Army,  Dr. 
C.  M.  Beebe  of  the  Faculty  of  the  Homeopathic 
College. 

The  Slum  Posts  reach  out  by  personal  influence  and 
small  amounts  of  relief  to  the  destitute  and  wayward 
of  their  respective  vicinities.  Each  is  in  charge  of 
two  female  officers  of  the  Salvation  Army. 

The  motives  and  aims  of  the  Army  in  all  their 
work  are  distinctively  religious, the  "saving"  and  not 
simply  the  relieving  of  the  destitute  and  fallen.  The 
responsible  local  officer  in  Chicago  is  "Brigadier" 
Edward  Fielding. 

219 


CHICAGO  MEDICAL  MISSION, 

40  Custom  House  Place,  near  Van  Buren  St. 

Free  Nursing. 

Free  Dispensary. 

Free  Baths. 

Free  Laundry. 

Object:  "To  advance  the  cause  of  Christianity, 
and  to  aid  in  uplifting  the  fallen,  relieving  the  suffer- 
ing, and  improving  the  condition  of  the  neglected 
classes. " 

The  following  statement  of  the  origin,  and  general 
plan  of  the  work  is  furnished  by  the  Superintendent. 
The  Chicago  Medical  Mission  was  formally  opened 
June  25,  1893.  It  is  Christian,  but  entirely  unde- 
nominational in  its  work.  It  was  established  and  is 
conducted  under  the  auspices  of  the  S.  P.  A.  Med- 
ical Missionary  and  Benevolent  Association,  which 
has  for  many  years  conducted  a  self-supporting  and 
philanthropic  institution  at  Battle  Creek,  Mich., 
known  as  the  Battle  Creek  Sanitarium,  and  as  the 
finances  of  the  institution  have  improved  to  such  a 
degree  as  to  enable  it  to  extend  its  work,  and 
through  the  aid  of  generous  gifts  from  Mrs.  C.  E. 
Haskell,  and  other  philanthropic  persons,  has  estab- 
lished medical  missionary  work  in  various  lines,  and 
in  different  parts  of  this  and  other  countries.  Its 
principal  branches  are  at  St.  Helena,  Cal.,  Guada- 
lajara, Mexico,  and  Cape  Town,  South  Africa.  It 
has  also  a  branch  Sanitarium  at  28  College  Place, 
Chicago,  the  means  of  which  are  devoted  to  the  sup- 
port of  the  Chicago  Medical  Mission,  though  inad- 
equate to  carry  on  the  work  of  the  mission,  which 


222  CHICAGO    MEDICAL    MISSION 

has  grown  far  beyond  the  expectations  of  the  pro- 
jectors. The  following  are  the  principal  lines  of 
work  undertaken  in  connection  with  the  Chicago 
Medical  Mission: 

Missionary  Nursing. — For  nearly  a  year  before  the 
formal  opening  of  the  mission  a  missionary  nurse 
had  been  employed  for  the  purpose  of  nursing  the 
sick  poor  at  their  homes,  and  laboring  for  the  im- 
provement of  the  condition  of  the  most  indigent  and 
neglected  families  to  be  found  on  Clark  Street,  Sher- 
man Avenue,  and  in  the  wretched  tenements  of  that 
vicinity.  Since  the  opening  of  the  mission  a  large 
number  of  nurses  have  been  employed,  from  half  a 
dozen  during  the  summer  months  to  more  than 
thirty  at  times  during  a  portion  of  last  winter.  The 
work  of  a  missionary  nurse  is  evangelical  as  well  as 
medical.  Since  the  opening  of  the  mission,  now 
fifteen  months,  more  than  4,500  persons  have  been 
cared  for  by  missionary  nurses. 

Free  Obstetric  Service. — Since  October  8,  1893, 
a  free  obstetric  service  under  the  charge  of  a  com- 
petent physician  with  a  corps  of  trained  nurses  has 
been  conducted  in  connection  with  the  mission, 
through  which  125  lying-in  women  have  been  cared 
for.  This  service  is  conducted  in  a  manner  different 
from  the  work  of  the  ordinary  visiting  or  missionary 
nurse,  the  nurse  remaining  with  the  patient  as  long 
as  may  be  required  by  the  necessities  of  either 
mother  or  child.  Doctors,  physicians,  and  nurses, 
are  in  constant  readiness  to  answer  calls  to  any  part 
of  the  city. 


CHICAGO  MEDICAL  MISSION  223 

The  Dispensary. — Since  the  formal  opening  of 
the  mission  a  free  dispensary  service  has  been  main- 
tained. The  poor  of  all  classes  are  received  daily 
at  40  Custom  House  Place,  where  medicines  are 
dispensed,  wounds  are  dressed,  and  any  other  treat- 
ment required  administered.  The  treatment  given 
includes  massage,  electricity,  and  baths  of  every 
sort  required,  as  well  as  medical  prescriptions.  The 
whole  number  of  patients  prescribed  for  and  treated 
at  the  dispensary  during  the  first  year  was  4,169. 
This  number  has  since  been  increased  to  nearly 
6,000.  The  number  of  treatments  administered  the 
first  year,  including  dressings  supplied,  but  not  in- 
cluding ordinary  baths,  was  16,852,  which  has  since 
been  increased  (fifteen  months  since  opening)  to 
over  20,000.  The  afternoons  ot  Monday,  Wednesday 
and  Friday  are  reserved  for  women  exclusively.  A 
lady  physician  is  in  regular  attendance  on  those 
days.  A  gentleman  physician  is  in  attendance  at  the 
dispensary  daily  in  the  forenoon.  Trained  nurses 
are  at  the  dispensary  every  day  of  the  week  for  at- 
tendance upon  emergency  cases. 

Free  Baths. — Provision  for  free  baths  was  made 
at  the  opening  of  the  mission.  Both  shower  and 
full  baths  are  given,  as  well  as  such  special  baths 
as  may  be  prescribed  by  the  attending  physicians. 
From  the  outset  the  baths  have  been  very  liberally 
patronized;  the  daily  number  of  baths  administered 
averaging  more  than  sixty,  sometimes  reaching 
double  that  number.  The  total  number  of  baths  given 
in  the  fifteen  months  since  the  opening  is  a  little 
more  than  23,000. 


224  CHICAGO  MEDICAL   MISSION 

Free  Laundry. — A  feature  of  the  mission,  which 
is  perhaps  unique,  is  a  free  laundry,  which  is  car- 
ried on  in  connection  with  the  free  baths.  A  large 
number  of  patrons  of  the  mission  are  men  who  have 
no  regular  home,  no  facilities  for  washing  their 
clothing,  and  no  money  with  which  to  pay  for  laun- 
drying.  The  free  laundry  has  been  very  liberally 
patronized  from  the  beginning.  It  is  fitted  up  with 
eight  laundry  tubs  and  a  hot  air  dryer,  and  accom- 
modates seventy-five  to  eighty  persons  daily.  The 
whole  number  of  persons  who  have  used  the  laun- 
dry from  the  opening  to  the  present  time  is  some- 
thing more  than  17,000,  or  more  than  a  thousand  a 
month.  The  number  of  persons  using  the  laundry 
would  be  very  much  greater  if  the  facilities  were 
more  extensive,  as  it  is  constantly  in  use  from  early 
morning  till  late  at  night,  and  it  is  not  an  unusual 
thing  for  persons  to  come  as  early  as  6  o'clock  in 
the  morning,  to  be  sure  of  getting  an  opportunity 
to  wash  their  clothing. 

Penny  Dinners. — Early  last  fall  (in  1893)  the 
hungry  faces  of  those  visiting  the  different  depart- 
ments of  the  mission  suggested  the  necessity  of  re- 
lieving, to  some  extent,  the  famishing  multitudes  left 
stranded  in  the  city  by  the  financial  panic.  The 
plan  of  giving  penny  dinners  was  instituted.  The 
dinner  consisted  of  a  large  bowlful  of  nourishing 
and  palatable  soup  with  zwieback  or  granola  (a  health 
food  supplied  gratuitously  for  the  purpose  by  the 
Sanitarium  Health  Food  Co.,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.). 
Books  of  100  tickets  each  were  issued  and  liberally 


CHICAGO  MEDICAL  MISSION  225 

purchased  by  business  men  and  others.  The  number 
of  penny  dinners  given  daily  increased  rapidly  from 
one  or  two  hundred  to  fifteen  hundred.  When  the 
public  soup  kitchens  were  opened  a  few  weeks  later 
the  sale  of  books  of  tickets  was  stopped  and  the 
dinners  distributed,  as  far  as  possible,  to  those  un- 
able to  work.  From  this  time  on  during  the  winter 
until  May  i,  1894,  when  the  dinners  were  discontin- 
ued for  the  summer,  the  number  averaged  from  three 
to  five  hundred  daily. 

Financial  Support. — The  financial  foundation  of 
the  Chicago  Medical  Mission  was  laid  by  Henry  S.  P. 
and  Francis  Henry  Wessels, of  South  Africa,  friends 
of  the  enterprise,  who  contributed  $40,000  for  the 
purchase  of  a  building  to  be  used  as  a  Sanitarium 
conducted  in  connection  with  the  Battle  Creek  San- 
itarium, all  the  profits  of  the  institution  to  be  de- 
voted to  maintaining  the  medical  mission  in  Chica- 
go. The  branch  Sanitarium  has  been  very  prosper- 
ous from  its  opening,  but  the  work  of  the  mission 
has  developed  so  rapidly  that  the  necessary  expend- 
itures have  been  several  thousand  dollars  beyond  the 
earnings  of  the  Sanitarium,  so  that  a  debt  of  sev- 
eral thousand  dollars  has  accumulated.  The  deficit 
has  been  partially  made  up  by  friends  of  the  work, 
and  it  is  hoped  that  the  balance  may  be  met  in  the 
same  way.  Thus  far,  no  charge  has  been  made  for 
any  service  rendered  by  the  mission  It  is  contem- 
plated, however,  to  make  a  small  charge  hereafter 
for  medicines  and  for  soap,  two  items  which  amount 
to  several  hundred  dollars  a  year,  the  charge  made 
not  to  exceed  five  cents.  Inquiries  concerning  the 
work  should  be  addressed  to  J.  H.  Kellogg,  M.  D., 
Superintendent,  28  College  Place,  Chicago,  or  Bat- 
tle Creek,  Michigan. 


"LIGHT  AND  HOPE"  HOSPITAL. 

S.  W.  Cor.  Harrison  and  MaySts.  Telephone  W-938. 

Deaconess'  Home. 
Free  Dispensary. 
The  Refuge  Home. 

Objects:  "To  train  ladies  for  nurses  and  mis- 
sionary work.  To  take  care  of  sick  people.  To 
care  for  erring  women  during  confinement.  To  open 
a  Home  where  orphans  and  neglected  children  shall 
be  taken  care  of.  To  establish  a  place  of  recreation 
for  the  Deaconesses,  where  they  may  spend  their 
vacation.  To  send  Deaconesses  to  such  families  as  are 
not  able  to  pay  for  a  nurse,  and  to  take  care  of  their 
sick  without  pay.  To  give  special  training  to  the 
Deaconesses  for  confinement  cases,  and  for  sickness 
of  women  and  children." 

In  furtherance  of  these  purposes  the  society, 
which  is  incorporated  as  the  Missionary  Society 
"Light  and  Hope,"  has  established  in  Berne,  In- 
diana, April  i,  1893,  an  Orphans'  Home  for  girls, 
accommodating  100  inmates;  at  Bluffton,  Ohio,  a 
Home  for  Incurables, and  Branch  Hospitals  at  Cleve- 
land, Ohio, and  Detroit,  Mich. 

In  Chicago  it  has  purchased  and  fitted  up  the 
church  on  the  corner  of  May  and  Harrison  Streets 
for  the  purpose  of  conducting  its  Hospital,  Deacon- 
ess' Home  Training  School,  Refuge  for  fallen 
and  other  women,  and  Free  Dispensary. 

The  average  number  of  patients  in  the  Hospital 
is  forty,  of  deaconesses,  thirty. 

226 


228  CHURCH   CHARITIES 

In  Chicago  the  work  among  fallen  women  and 
nursing  by  the  Deaconesses  among  destitute  fam- 
ilies are  prominent  features,  especially  the  receiv- 
ing into  its  hospital  and  Home  erring  women  pre- 
vious to  and  during  confinement,  in  the  hope  of 
restoring  them  to  their  friends  and  a  life  of  virtue. 
Very  encouraging  results  are  reported  for  this  line  of 
work.  The  number  of  this  class  cared  for  since 
Jan.  i, is  175;  number  of  children  born  in  Home,  60. 

The  founder,  general  and  financial  manager  and 
president,  is  an  ordained  Mennonite  minister,  but 
the  work  is  conducted  along  unsectarian  though  dis- 
tinctively evangelical  lines. 

Expended  for  institution  at  Chicago: 

For  household    expenditures $   7, 075. 57 

For  household    furniture 3,455.64 

For  remodeling  buildings 4,632.75 

For  purchasing  lots  and  buildings 15,500.00 

Expended  for  the  Orphans'  Home 4,355.10 

For  Deaconess  Home  at  Berne,   Ind. ,    with 

household  furniture 7,000.  oo 


Total  $42,019.06 

Received  during  the  first  two  years: 
Donations  from  people  outside  of  Chicago. $  1,387.70 

For  nursing  and  hospital  fees 1,502.24 

From  World's   Fair  guests 1,487.24 

Donations  by  friends  in  Chicago 201.00 

By  Rev.  J.  A.    Sprunger 27,000.00 


Total  $30,578.18 
Installments  due  on  property  in  Chicago  $10,000.00 
Deficit 440. 88 

REV.  J.  A.  SPRUNGER,  President. 

Miss  M.  GERBER,  Vice-President. 

FRED  ROHRER,  Secretary. 

Miss  K.  MOSER,  Assistant  Secretary. 


SWEDISH  HOME  OF  MERCY. 
Bowmanville  P.  O.,  Chicago. 

Object:  "To  be  a  home  for  those  who  love  a 
home  but  have  none,  and  are  without  friends  or 
money,  in  times  of  sickness  and  old  age. " 

The  number  of  patients  cared  for  last  year  was 
212.  The  Home  has  accommodations  for  49  persons. 
Most  of  the  inmates  have  received  free  hospitality 
and  medical  care,  but  when  able  to  pay  a  charge  of 
$3.00  a  week  and  upwards  is  made.  Last  year's 
receipts  were  $6,819;  disbursements,  $7,846.  The 
property  is  owned,  but  there  are  no  endowments. 
The  religious  affiliations  are  with  the  Swedish  Evan- 
gelical Mission  Covenant  of  America.  The  support  is 
from  collections  and  donations  of  churches  and  friends. 

H.  PALMBLAD,  President. 

C.  A.    OMAN,  Secretary. 

S.  YOUNGQUIST,  Treasurer. 

EMERGENCY  HOSPITAL. 

192    E.     Superior  St. 

Object:.  "That  the  suffering  and  the  sick  may  be 
cared  for  and  relieved  in  a  becoming  and  Christian 
manner,  without  distinction  of  creed,  country  or 
color." 

During  1891,  294  patients  were  nursed  and  cared 
for  in  the  Hospital,  which  is  a  large,  airy,  well- 
furnished  building.  The  religious  affiliations  are 
with  the  Evangelical  Lutheran  church.  The  sup- 
port is  from  voluntary  contributions  and  from  such 
patients  as  are  able  to  pay  for  the  services  received. 

REV.   W.   A.  PAPAVANT,    Director. 

HAHNEMANN  HOSPITAL. 

Near  Cor.  28th  and  Cottage  Grove  Ave. 
This  is  the  oldest  Homeopathic  Hospital  and  Col- 
lege in  Chicago.      It  was  recently  rebuilt  and  equip- 
ped with  modern  conveniences.    It  admits    both  pay 
and  charity  patients.      No  report  is  furnished. 

229 


COOK  COUNTY  CHARITIES. 
County  Agents'  Office. 

129  S.  Clinton  Street. 

Object:  "To  relieve,  with  provisions,  fuel  and 
clothing  and  transportation,  the  destitute  of  Cook 
County. " 

The  general  monthly  allowance  of  outdoor  relief 
for  one  family  is  a  25-pound  sack  of  flour,  5  pounds 
of  corn  beef,  5  pounds  of  beans,  3  of  rice,  5  of  oat- 
meal, Y-Z  of  coffee,  and  tea,  i  bar  of  soap,  and  in  the 
winter  a  half-ton  of  soft  coal.  The  allowance  is  pro- 
portioned to  the  number  of  persons  in  the  family  and 
the  measure  of  disability,  large  families  receiving 
twice  this  ration.  Shoes  are  also  given  to  school- 
children. Besides  giving  this  relief  the  County 
Agent  furnishes  medical  care,  orders  for  burials  and 
for  admittance  to  the  Poor-House  and  the  Hospital. 

PROVISIONS,  ETC.,  GIVEN  OUT  BY  COUNTY  AGENT. 

1893.          1894  to  Sept.  i. 

Pounds  of  flour 1,010, 100  827.125 

meat 144^92  I37>332 

oatmeal 12,090  254,301 

beans I43>59i  117,640 

rice 125,172  100,249 

peas 56,H3  J5>95° 

coffee l8,379  10,376 

tea J5>993  9,012 

Bars  of  soap 40,877  32,813 

Pairs  of  shoes 2, 128  2,307 

Suits  of   clothing 79  i 

Tons  of  coal 1 1,520  8,884 

Value  of  relief   $97,794  $73, 582 

Average  number  of  families 

aided  monthly 2,669  3,248 

No.  aided  in  January 3>°74  6,595 

No.  aided  in   December..  8,649  

Cases  given  transportation              150  195 

C.  J.  HAPPEL,  Agent. 
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232 


COOK    COUNTY   HOSPITAL 


Cook  County  Hospital. 

Cor.  Wood  and  Harrison  Streets.     Established  1865 
Erected  1875. 

Object:      "To  render  medical  and   surgical  attend- 
ance to  the  poor  of  Cook  County. " 

The  Morgue,  to  receive  any   unidentified    dead,  is 
in  the  basement. 

A  Contagious  Diseases  Ward  is  a  part  of  the  Hos- 
pital. 

ADMISSIONS  AND  EXPENDITURES  OF  HOSPITAL. 


1891 

1892 

1893 

1894 
ist  6  months. 

Admitted     ....         ... 

9,241 

8,499 

10,834 

5,763 

9,105 

8,593 

5  389 

8,035 

7,723 

Births 

398 

Deaths                

1,256 

819 

620 

763 

798 

8150,764 

$129,056.17 

$158,070.02 

$78,685.92 

62,483 

68,'92.86 

75,163.27 

46,909  23 

Total  expenditure  
Average  number  

$213.248 
661 

5i97,349-03 

59  1 

$233.233-29 

»125,595-I5 

Per  Cap.  cost  per  diem.  .  . 

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The  property  is  valued  at  $1,700,000,  covers  13 
acres,  is  owned  and  controlled  by  the  Cook  County 

Board  of  Commissioners. 
WM.  F.  MONROE,  Warden. 
M.  R.  MANDELBAUM,  Steward. 

HOSPITAL  COMMITTEE. 

O.  D.  ALLEN,  CHAS.   BURMEISTER, 

J.  N.  CUNNING,  J.  M.  GREEN, 

GEORGE  EDMANSON.      \ 

Detention   Hospital. 

Criminal  Court  Building,  Dearborn  Ave. and  Ohio  St. 

Object:  To  hold  in  temporary  custody  persons 
suspected  of  insanity  and  juvenile  delinquents  and 
dependents  preliminary  to  their  trial  by  court. 


234 


COOK   COUNTY    CHARITIES 


Cook  County  Insane  Asylum. 
Chicago    (Dunning  P.  O.),    C.,  M.   &  St.   P.   R.   R. 

Object:  "To  care  for  the  insane  of  Cook  County 
not  cared  for  elsewhere. " 

The  average  number  of  inmates  during  last  year 
was  1,038,  550  males  and  472  females.  The  build- 
ings are  estimated  at  the  sum  of  $715,801. 

The  property  and  control  is  vested  in  the  Board  of 
Cook  County  Commissioners.  The  support  is  from 
taxation. 

The  number  of  employees  average  about  160 — 90 
males  and  70  females.  The  chronic  insane  are  re- 
tained in  this  asylum;  those  for  whom  there  is  more 
hope  for  ultimate  recovery  are  transferred  to  the 
Kankakee  or  other  State  hospitals  for  the  insane. 


1892,  Inmates  Disc'gd 

Recov- 
ered 

Impro- 
ved. 

Unim- 
proved. 

Died 

Trans- 
ferred* 

Re- 
tn'ingt 

Total  No 
cared  i  or 

Males.. 

26 

15 

54 
M 

29 
17 

85 
60 

77 
53 

53 
43 

II 

4 

II 

5 

8 
7 

39 
43 

54 
45 

49 
29 

165 
65 

4 
103 

6 
3 

333 
445 

660 

632 

Females  

1893 
Males  

778 

I2Q2 

464 
4i8 

664 
637 

1894  —  to  July  3ist. 
Males  

88  1 

1301 

556 
472 

703 
57' 

Females  

I028J 

1274 

The  Insane  Asylum  and  Poor-House  were,  at  the 
beginning  of  the  year  1892,  placed  under  one  man- 
agement. 

Supplies  for  the  two  Institutions,  1892 $210,092.30 

Salaries  "  "  1892 80,692,90 

$290,785.20 

Supplies  "  "  1893 $266,397.30 

Salaries  1893 86,073.86 

$352,471.24 

Of  the  number  of  inmates  received  at  the  Detention 
Hospital,  2,197  were  sent  to  Dunning,  422  to  Kan- 
kakee, 422  to  Elgin.  Various  disposition  was  made 
of  the  remainder,  some  being  sent  to  the  Poor-House, 
some  returned  to  friends,  some  to  Washingtonian 
Home  and  some  non-residents  to  the  places  whence 
they  came. 

"Transferred  to  State  Institutions.       tjanuary  i.      tAugust  i. 


COOK    COUNTY    CHARITIES 


Cook  County  Poor-House. 

Chicago  (Dunning  P.  O.),    C,  M.  &  St.  P.  R.R. 

Object:  "To  care  for  the  very  poor  of  Cook  County 
who  cannot  be  accommodated  in  other  institutions. " 

The  average  number  of  inmates  is  about.  1,300 — 
both  males  and  females  about  equally  divided.  Em- 
ployees, 75. 

The  farm,  comprising  246  acres,  on  which  the 
buildings  are  located,  is  cultivated  by  the  inmates; 
the  value  of  the  produce  in  1891  was  $9,469.  The 
value  of  buildings  is  estimated  at  $250,000.  The 
property  and  control  is  vested  in  the  Board  of  Com- 
missioners of  Cook  County;  the  support  is  from  tax- 
ation. 

The  Infirmary  is  not  arranged  on  the  cottage  plan. 
There  are  no  industries  conducted  in  it.  The  wards 
for  males  are  in  one  wing  and  for  females  in  another; 
aged  couples  are  therefore  necessarily  separated. 


1892-lNMATES. 

Hen. 

Women. 

1181 
125 
369 

1,274 
131 
39" 

804 
61 
349 

Children 

3i8 
35 
82 

M 

54 

192 
17 
69 

ImbVll's 

40 

Total 

5424 
548 
1628 

7266 
607 
1907 

4251 
346 
1256 

Number  cared  for  1892  

3885 
388 
"37 

5634 
433 
M44 

3190 

268 
823 

Births,  108;  Deaths  

Remaining  January  i,  1893  

40 
41 

1893 
Number  cared  for  1893  

Births,  82;  Deaths  

Remaining  January  i,  1894 

12 
15 

1894  to  July  31. 
Number  cared  for  1894  

Births,  41;  Deaths  

Remaining  

15 

Tramps  accommodated  

1892 
2128 

1893 
52C6 

1894- 
55l8 

to    July 

3ist. 

Cost  per  capita  per  diem,  1892,  44  1-2  cents. 


STATE   CHARITIES. 

Illinois  State  Board  of  Public  Charities. 

Springfield,  111. 

Object:  The  aim  of  this  Board  is  to  exercise  gen- 
eral supervision  over  the  Charitable  Institutions  of 
the  State.  The  Board  was  appointed  by  Gov. 
John  P.  Altgeld. 

Much  of  the  information  concerning  the  State  In- 
stitutions contained  in  this  book  is  furnished  by  the 
courtesy  of  its  Secretary. 

BOARD   OF  COMMISSIONERS. 

BOERNE  BETTMAN,  M.  D.,  Chicago. 
GEORGE  W.  CURTISS,  Stockton. 
JULIA  C.  LATHROP,  Rockford. 
D.  W.  ANDREWS,    Centralia. 
JAMES  McNABB,  Carrollton. 

GEORGE  F.    MINER,   Secretary. 

STATE  GUARDIANS  FOR  GIRLS. 

Office,  Room  818,  Chicago  Opera  House  Block. 
The  Home  for  Juvenile    Female  Offenders. 

Located  at  Geneva,   Kane  County,  111. 

This  Home. was  opened  Jan.  i,  1893,  in  a  rented 
building  at  3111  Indiana  Ave.,  Chicago, but  May  19, 
1894,  a  permanent  site  was  bought  upon  which 
buildings  are  being  erected,  at  Geneva,  111. 

The  object  is  to  provide  for  the  maintenance,  dis- 
cipline and  reformation  of  such  girls  as  may  be  com- 
mitted to  it,  the  law  being  that  whenever  any  girl 
between  the  ages  of  ten  and  sixteen  is  convicted  be- 
fore any  court  of  record,  or  before  any  Justice  of 
the  Peace  or  Police  Magistrate,  of  any  offense 

238 


ILLINOIS   STATE    CHARITIES  239 

or  misdemeanor  which,  if  committed  by  an  adult, 
would  be  punishable  by  confinement  in  any  house  of 
correction,  or  county  jail,  such  juvenile  offender  may 
be  committed  by  the  order  of  such  court  to  the  State 
Home  for  Juvenile  Female  Offenders,  for  a  time  not 
less  than  one  year  nor  beyond  their  minority. 

NUMBER  OF   INMATES. 

Number  of  girls  received    during  first   6  months 

of  1894 17 

Number  dismissed  during  first  6  months  of  1894.  5 

Number  in  the  Home    June  30,   1894 I2 

CHARGE    OF    COMMITMENT. 

Vagrancy 6 

Disorderly    conduct 3 

Petty  larceny I 

Inmate  of  house  of  ill-fame 3 

Open    lewdness 2 

Common  night   walked  .1 2 

The  average   age    was    14,  average  length  of  com- 
mitment 2  years. 

There  were  15   Americans  and  2  Germans. 
The  State  appropriations  were  $75,000  for  build- 
ing and  grounds  and  $32,000  per  annum  for  current 
expenses,  of  which    $10,033.04    were  expended    for 
furnishing  and  maintenance  June  30,   1894. 

TRUSTEES. 

MRS.  J.  D.  HARVEY,  President. 
MRS.  G.  M.  HOLT,  Secretary. 
W.  J.  ACKERMAN,  Treasurer. 

MRS.  M.  R.  M.  WALLACE,  MRS.  C.  M.  HENROTIN, 
F.  M.  ANNIS,  WM.  PRENTISS, 

M.  J.  CARROLL. 


240  ILLINOIS    STATE   CHARITIES 

Illinois  Asylum  for  Feeble-Minded  Children. 

Lincoln,    Logan    County.     Established  1865. 

Object :  "To  promote  the  intellectual,  moral,  and 
physical  culture  of  feeble-minded  children,  and  to 
fit  them  as  far  as  possible  for  earning  their  own 
livelihood  and  for  future  usefulness  in  society. " 

In  1865  the  General  Assembly  authorized  the  trus- 
tees of  the  Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Deaf 
and  Dumb,  at  Jacksonville,  to  open  an  experimental 
school  for  idiots  and  feeble-minded  children  in  a 
rented  house.  Ten  years  later,  in  1875,  this  school 
was  made  permanent,  and  a  site  purchased  at  Lin- 
coln, upon  which  buildings  were  erected,  to  which 
large  additions  have  since  been  made,  including  a 
custodial  department.  Cost,  $250,000. 

The  capacity  is  greatly  overtaxed,  700  having  been 
refused  admission.  Average  number  of  inmates,  546; 
expenses,  $91,073.95,  for  1894. 

DR.  A.  M.    MILLER,    Superintendent. 

Illinois  Soldiers'   and  Sailors'  Orphans'  Home. 

Normal,   McLean  County.     Established  1869. 

Object:  "To  provide  a  home  for  the  nurture  and 
intellectual,  moral  and  physical  culture  of  all  indi- 
gent children  below  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  whose 
fathers  served  in  the  armies  of  the  Union  during  the 
late  rebellion,  and  have  died  or  been  disabled  by 
reason  of  wounds  or  disease  received  therein,  or  have 
since  died. " 

Average  number  of  inmates,  373;  expenses  for  1894, 
$50,220.97.  CAPT.  C.  E.  BASSETT,  Superintendent. 


ILLINOIS    ASYLUM  FOR   FEEBLE   MINDED    CHILDREN. 


ILLINOIS  SOLDIER'S  AND  SAILOR'S  ORPHANS'  HOME.      241 


242  ILLINOIS    STATE    CHARITIES 

Illinois  Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Blind. 

Jacksonville,    Morgan  County. 

Object:  "To  promote  the  intellectual,  moral,  and 
physical  culture  of  the  blind,  and  to  fit  them,  as  far 
as  possible,  for  earning  their  own  livelihood,  and 
for  future  usefulness  in  society. " 

This  Institution,  chartered  January  13,  1849,  was 
opened  (in  a  rented  house)  in  April  of  that  year. 
The  site,  which  contains  about  twenty  acres,  is  in 
the  corporate  limits  of  Jacksonville.  The  original 
buildings  were  destroyed  by  fire  in  1869.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  main  structure,  there  are  a  separate  cot- 
tage for  girls,  workshops,  etc.  The  cost  for  land 
and  buildings  was  about  $250,000.  Instruction  is 
given  in  English,  in  music,  and  in  mechanical  trades. 

It  is  free  to  all  residents  of  the  State  of  Illinois, 
of  school  age,  and  the  adult  blind,  who  have  lost 
their  sight  later  in  life,  are  admitted  to  the  shops 
to  acquire  trades  by  which  to  support  themselves 
without  eyes.  Annual  appropriations  are  made  for 
its  maintenance  by  the  General  Assembly.  Average 
number  of  inmates,  167;  expenses  for  1894, 
$70,010.52. 

DR.  W.  F.  SHORT,  Superintendent. 


ILLINOIS     INSTITUTION    FOR    THK    BLIND. 


ILLINOIS    INSTITUTION    FOR  THK    DEAF   AND    DUMB.          243 


244  ILLINOIS  STATE   CHARITIES 

Illinois  Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Deaf 
and  Dumb. 

Jacksonville,     Morgan    County.       Established  1838. 
Cost,   $500,000. 

Object:  "To  promote  the  intellectual,  moral  and 
physical  culture  of  the  deaf,  and  to  fit  them,  as  far 
as  possible,  for  earning  their  own  livelihood,  and  for 
future  usefulness  in  society." 

This  is  the  largest  institution  for  the  deaf  in  the 
world,  having  a  capacity  to  care  properly  for  500 
pupils.  Instruction  is  given  in  the  ordinary  and 
the  higher  branches  of  an  English  education;  also, 
in  mechanical  trades  and  free-hand  drawing.  The 
corps  of  teachers  has  been  selected  with  care.  The 
younger  pupils  are  separated  from  the  older.  The 
facilities  for  training  are  exceptionally  good,  includ- 
ing a  large  library,  a  hospital,  a  gymnasium,  etc. 
Much  attention  is  paid  to  training  in  articulation. 
The  discipline  is  mild,  but  firm.  The  institution 
has  grown  to  its  present  size  from  a  small  begin- 
ning. It  is  the  oldest  of  the  State  institutions,  be- 
ing chartered  February  3,  1839,  but  was  not  opened 
until  1845,  nor  was  the  original  building  (the  present 
south  wing)  completed  until  1849,  and  the  north 
wing  was  not  completed  until  1857.  The  institution 
now  includes  a  large  group  of  buildings,  disconnected 
from  each  other.  Average  number  of  inmates,  351; 
expenses  for  1894,  $124,098.75. 

DR.  S.  T.  WALKER,    Superintendent. 


ILLINOIS    STATE   CHARITIES  245 

Illinois  Eastern  Asylum  for  the  Insane. 

Kankakee,  Kankakee  County.  Established  1877.  It 
has  24  Cottages.  Cost,  $1,500,000. 

Its  erection  marks  an  epoch  in  the  history  of  the 
care  of  the  insane  in  the  United  States,  since  it  was 
the  first  successful  attempt  to  break  the  power  of  the 
Kirkbride  "propositions"  adopted  by  the  Association 
of  Medical  Superintendents  of  American  Institutions 
for  the  Insane,  in  accordance  with  which  all  previous 
State  institutions  for  this  class  of  patients  had  been 
planned.  The  establishment,  which  has  grown  to  a 
total  capacity  of  2,000  patients,  and  is  one  of  the 
largest  in  the  world,  is  in  effect  a  village  for  the  in- 
sane of  both  sexes,  with  a  main  building  on  the  Kirk- 
bride  system,  which  accommodates  300  patients,  150 
of  each  sex,  but  is  supplemented  by  a  group  of  24 
detached  wards  fronting  on  streets  regularly  laid  out, 
with  sidewalks,  sewers,  gas  and  water-mains,  shade 
trees,  etc.  These  detached  wards  are  unlike,  both 
in  their  exterior  and  interior  designs,  and  are  adapted 
to  the  wants  of  special  classes  of  patients.  A  por- 
tion of  them  have  unlocked  doors,  and  are  without 
guards  upon  the  windows.  All  of  them  have  large, 
wide  piazzas  for  summer  use  by  the  inmates.  Two 
of  them  are  hospitals  or  infirmaries,  one  for  each 
sex;  that  for  women  has  a  resident  lady  physician. 
There  are  large  general  bath-houses,  with  Turkish 
and  plunge  baths;  one  general  dining-room,  which 
seats  410  male  patients;  special  buildings  for  lodg- 
ing employees,  one  for  each  sex;  workshops  for  pa- 
tients, a  theater,  etc. 

The  farm  and    grounds    include  843    acres,  which 


246         ILLINOIS   HOSPITAL  FOR  THE   INSANE,    KANKAKF.F. 

One  of  its  24  Cottages. 


ILLINOIS    STATE   CHARITIES  247 

are  the  property  of  the  State  of  Illinois.  The  grounds 
are  beautifully  laid  out  and  planted  with  ornamental 
trees  and  shrubbery.  The  site  is  on  the  left  bank  of 
the  Kankakee  River,adjoining  the  town  of  Kankakee, 
but  just  outside  the  city  limits. 

This,  as  the  other  State  institutions,  is  supported 
by  annual  appropriations  by  the  State  Legislature. 

No  charges  are  made  for  board  or  medical  care. 
Any  resident  of  the  State  is  admitted  when  needing 
its  benefits,  and  when  adjudged  insane  by  a  County 
Court. 

District:  This  Asylum  is  set  apart  for  the  recep- 
tion of  patients  from  Champaign,  Coles,  Douglas, 
Edgar,  Ford,  Grundy,  Iroquois,  Kankakee,  La  Salle, 
Livingston,  Moultrie,  Platt,  Vermillion,  and  Will 
Counties, and  a  portion  of  the  insane  of  Cook  County. 
Average  number  of  inmates, 201 8;  expenses  for  1894, 

$363>  699-63 

DR.  CLARKE  GAPEN,   Superintendent. 

Illinois  Southern  Hospital  for  the  Insane. 

Anna,  Union  County.  Established  1873.  Cost, 
about  $750,000. 

It  has  a  capacity  of  1,000  inmates.  The  main 
building  is  on  the  Kirkbride  plan,  but  its  north  wing 
was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1881,  and  the  temporary 
wooden  barracks  then  erected  are  still  occupied. 

An  annex  detached  from  the  hospital  was  erected 
in  1891  and  accommodates  300  patients.  The  grounds 
are  rolling  and  covered  with  timber. 

Average  number  of  inmates,  847.  Expenses  for 
1894,  $136,398.83.  DR.  W.  C.  LENCE,  Supt. 


ILLINOIS    CENTRAL    HOSPITAL    FOR    THE    INSANF. 


248        ILLINOIS    SOUTHERN    HOSPITAL  FOR  THE   INSANE. 


ILLINOIS   STATE  CHARITIES  249 

Illinois  Central  Hospital  for  the  Insane. 

Jacksonville,  Morgan  County. 

This  is  the  first  hospital  for  the  insane  erected  in 
the  State,  and  owes  its  creation  largely  to  the  philan- 
thropic efforts  of  Miss  Dorothea  L.  Dix,  whose  por- 
trait hangs  in  the  reception  room.  The  original 
charter  was  approved  March  i,  1847.  The  first  pa- 
tient was  admitted  November  3,  1851.  The  plans 
adopted  (to  accommodate  450  patients)  were  not 
completed  until  1867,  so  that  the  hospital  was  twenty 
years  in  building.  Additions  have  since  been  made 
by  extending  the  wings  and  by  the  erection  of  two 
annexes,  connected  with  each  other  by  a  large  amuse- 
ment hall  and  chapel,  which  have  increased  the  ca- 
pacity of  the  institution  to  1,200  patients.  These 
annexes  are  separated  from  the  main  building,  which 
fronts  north,  while  they  front  east.  Each  of  them  is 
in  charge  of  an  assistant  physician.  The  hospital 
grounds  proper  are  inside  the  city  limits  and  con- 
tain 160  acres.  The  outbuildings  are  very  complete. 

District:  This  hospital  is  set  apart  for  the  recep- 
tion of  patients  from  the  counties  of  Adams,  Bureau, 
Calhoun,  Cass,  Christian,  DeWitt,  Fulton,  Greene, 
Hancock,  Henderson,  Henry,  Jersey,  Knox,  Logan, 
Macon,  Macoupin,  Marshall,  Mason,  McDonough, 
McLean,  Menard,  Mercer,  Morgan,  Peoria,  Pike, 
Rock  Island,  Sangamon,  Schuyler,  Scott,  Stark, 
Tazewell,  Warren,  and  Woodford.  Average  number 
of  inmates,  1,198;  expenses  for  1894,  $178,630.75. 

DR.  J.  F.  MCKENZIE,  Superintendent. 


250  ILLINOIS    STATE  CHARITIES 

Illinois  Northern  Hospital  for  the  Insane. 

Elgin,     Kane    County.       Established      1869.     Cost, 
$700,000. 

The  main  structure,  which  was  first  erected,  was 
fully  completed  in  1874.  It  is  on  the  Kirkbride  or 
corridor  plan,  with  wings  in  separate  sections  reced- 
ing in  echelon  on  each  side  from  the  center  building. 

The  first  patient  was  received  April  3,  1872.  A 
new  building,  known  as  the  Annex,  to  accommodate 
300  patients,  was  erected  in  1891  at  a  cost  of  $120,- 
ooo.  There  are  also  several  small  cottages  for  in- 
mates on  the  estate.  The  out-buildings  are  numer- 
ous and  extensive,  and  the  ornamental  lawn  between 
the  hospital  and  the  river  is  a  fine  example  of  suc- 
cessful landscape  gardening. 

District:  This  hospital  is  set  apart  for  the  recep- 
tion of  patients  from  the  counties  of  Boone,  Carroll, 
De  Kalb,  Du  Page,  Jo  Daviess,  Kane,  Kendall,  Lake, 
Lee,  McHenry,  Ogle,  Stephenson,  Whiteside,  Win- 
nebago,  and  a  portion  of  the  insane  of  Cook  County. 
Average  number  of  inmates,  1,095;  expenses  for  1894, 
$203,207.51. 

DR.  LOEWY,  Superintendent. 

Marine  Hospital  (U.  S.) 
N.  Halsted  St.,   near  Lake  Shore  Drive. 

Object:  "The  relief  of  sick  and  disabled  seamen." 
During  1891  there  were  3,431  patients  treated. 
The  Hospital  is  supported  by  the  United  States  gov- 
ernment, and  occupies  spacious  buildings,  erected  in 
1873,  and  eleven  acres  of  ground,  the  property  of 
the  government.  It  is  under  the  treasury  depart- 
ment, U.  S.  Marine  Hospital  service,  port  of  Chi- 
cago. The  service  is  performed  by  two  internes, 
one  assistant  surgeon,  one  passed- assistant  surgeon, 
and  Gen.  John  B.  Hamilton,  Surgeon  and  Com- 
mandant. 


IT.I.INOTS    NORTHERN   HOSPITAL   FOR   THF    1NSANF. 


MAPTNE    HOSPTTAT,,    U.     S. 


252  ILLINOIS    STATE   CHARITIES 

Illinois  Asylum  for  Insane  Criminals. 

Chester,  Randolph  County.    Established  1889.    Cost, 
$45,000. 

Object:  "The  proper  care,  custody,  and  treatment 
of  insane  criminals,  namely,  (i)  convict  insane,  (2) 
discharged  convict  insane,  (3)  insane  sent  to  the 
State  insane  hospitals  under  mittimus,  (4)  persons 
acquitted  on  trial  for  murder,  attempt  at  murder, 
rape,  attempt  at  rape,  highway  robbery,  or  arson,  on 
ground  of  insanity.  Patients  under  treatment  in 
insane  hospitals  who  have  been  guilty,  previous  to 
admission,  of  homicide,  highway  robbery,  rape,  or 
an  attempt  to  commit  rape  or  arson,  and  whose  pres- 
ence is  dangerous  to  others;  likewise,  all  insane  per- 
sons who  have  committed  an  act  of  homicide  or  who 
have  attempted  to  commit  such  act,  rape  or  an  at- 
tempt to  commit  rape,  arson  or  an  attempt  to  com- 
mit arson,  while  under  treatment  in  either  of  said 
hospitals,  may  be  transferred  to  this  institution  by 
the  State  Commissioners  of  Public  Charities  at  their 
discretion. " 

It  is  located  on  the  grounds  of  the  Illinois 
Southern  Penitentiary  at  Chester,  and  under 
the  control  of  the  Penitentiary  Commissioners  but 
not  of  the  warden. 

A  building,  which  cost  $45,000,  has  been  erected 
on  the  bluff,  commanding  a  fine  view  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi River.  Average  number  of  inmates,  112;  ex- 
penses for  1894,  $40,605.73. 

DR.   V.  S.   BENSON,  Superintendent. 


ILLINOIS   STATE   CHARITIES  253 

Illinois  Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary. 

Chicago,  Cor.   Peoria    and  Adams  Sts. 

Object:  "To  provide  gratuitous  board  and  med- 
ical and  surgical  treatment  for  all  indigent  residents 
of  Illinois,  who  are  afflicted  with  diseases  of  the  eye 
or  ear. " 

In  May,  1858,  an  association  was  organized  in 
Chicago  which  established  an  eye  and  ear  dispen- 
sary on  North  Clark  Street.  In  July,  1864,  by  pri- 
vate subscription,  an  infirmary  was  added  at  Nos. 
16  and  18  East  Pearson  Street.  In  1865  a  charter 
was  obtained  from  the  legislature,  and  in  1867-69 
small  appropriations  were  made  in  aid  of  this  purely 
private  institution.  After  the  adoption  of  the  new 
constitution  of  1870,  the  legislature  accepted  the 
establishment  and  converted  it  into  a  State  institu- 
tion. It  was  destroyed  in  the  great  Chicago  fire, 
Oct.  9,  1871,  and  for  a  time  occupied  a  rented  build- 
ing. But  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society  made 
it  a  grant  in  1872  of  funds  with  which  to  purchase 
a  new  site  at  the  corner  of  Peoria  and  Adams  Streets, 
and  the  General  Assembly,  in  1873,  made  an  appro- 
priation for  the  present  building,  which  has  been 
supplemented  by  other  appropriations  since  made 
for  enlargement.  Board  and  lodging  are  furnished 
at  the  expense  of  the  State,  but  only  to  such  persons 
as  bring  legal  certificates  of  indigence.  The  medical 
and  surgical  treatment  are  rendered  gratuitously  by 
a  staff  of  specialists.  A  free  dispensary  is  attached. 
The  land  and  buildings  have  cost  about  $80,000. 
Average  number  of  inmates,  112;  expenses  for  1894, 
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INDEX. 


Aged   Homes  for— List 4  Chicago  Flower  Mission 28 

Aged  Germans,  Homes  for  147  Chicago  Foundlings' Home 33 

Aged  Persons,   Church  Home  for. 189  Chicago  Free  Kindergarten  Ass'n    85 

Aid— Children's  Aid 51  Chicago     Froebel       Kindergarten 

Aid— Relief  and  Aid  Society 42          Association 86 

Agriculture  and  Manual  Training,        Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless. .  24 

Illinois  School  of 67  Chicago  Hospital   for  Women  and 

Alexian  Brothers'  Hospital 173          Children  29 

All  Souls  Church  Manual  Training         Chicago  Indust.  School  for  Girls..  173 

School 210  Chicago  Mechanic's  Institute 38 

Altenheim(Home  for  Aged  German)147  Chicago  Medical  Mission 220 

American  Educational  Aid  Ass'n..   49  Chicago  Nursery  and   Half  Orphan 
Anchorage  Mission  for  Women, W.  Asylum 39 

C.  T.    U 139  Chicago  Orphan  Asylum 35 

Anna  Hospital  for  the  Insane 247  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society 42 

Armour  Mission  Dispensary 105  Children's  Aid  Society 51 

Armour  Mission  Industrial  School.  105  Children's      Asylum     for     Feeble 
Armour  Mission   Institute  for  Man-  Minded 240 

ual  Training 105  Children's  Home  Society 49 

Asylum  List 4  Children's       Hospital— M.     Porter 

Asylum, Insane, Cook  County. ....  .234          Memorial 92 

Asylum  for  Feeble    Minded   Chil-        Children's  Hospital  W.  and  C 29 

dren 240  Church  Charities 162 

Aurora  Home 51  Church  Home  for  Aged  Persons.  ..189 

Baptist  Hospital 172  Church  Home  for  Orphans 191 

BethesdaDay  Nursery— W.C.T.U. 138  Church   of  the  Messiah     Kitchen- 
Bethesda  Free    Kindergarten— W.  garten 207 

,     C- T'  U ^  Church   of  the    Redeemer  Sewing 

Bethesda  Home — German 166          School  206 

Blind— 111. Institution  for  the  Educa-        citizens'  League  of 'c. for  the  Sup- 

tionof  the 242          pression  of  the  sale  of  liquorto 

Bureau  of  Justice.... 15          Minors  and   Drunkards 56 

Bureau  for  Registration  for  Nurses  82  civic  Federation  116 

Burr  Mission— Home  for  Friendless  24  aara  Barton  Training'  School" for 

Catholic  Chanties 173          Nurses,  W.  C.  T.  U 140 

Carriage  Rides 28  clinics  29 

Central  Labor  ;md  Relief  Bureau.  .116  Conference  of  Charities' and    Cor- 

Central  Free  Dispensary 18  rection  13 

Central  Hospital  for  Insane 249  /-•  fr      u  «?i 

CenSllfefCAsStTon'  '  "lie  C±ed^urses' draining  School:  "iffi 

CharifvHosrital 21  Cooking  Classes,  Unity  Church... 208 

SnS'Su'm1  for   insane'c'rim-*    Cook  C^H^pita,^..  ^ ...  .232 

ChicTgt  Deaconess''  Home" '. '. ! '.  [iW  gok  County  I^mary  236 

Chicago    Erring   Woman's  Refuge        Cook  County  Ins^Asy.um . .....  JJ4 

ChiS^Sange-  for'  Woman's  '     gg^Jgjgg^^ 
Chicago  Eye  and  Ear  infirmary ' .' .'  W          C'  and  Corrections 13 

256 


INDEX 


Contagious  Disease    Ward    Cook        Froebel  Kindergarten  Ass'n 8ft 

County  Hospital 232  Guardian  Angel  Orphan  Asylum... 174 

C  cnvalescents'Home 188  Gambling.  Anti-,  Association 137 

Convalescents'Honie.Presbyterian  203  G.  A.  R.  Chicago  Posts 155 

C.  O.  S.  Branch  Offices     45  G   A.  R.  Ladies 158 

County  Agent's  Ottice 231   German       Bethesda       Deaconess' 

County  Hospital 232          Society 165 

County  Insane  Asylum 234  German  Hospital  of  Chicago 150' 

Country  Week 107  German  Nurses'Training  School...  16ft 

Creche, Hull  House 65  German  Old  People'sHome 147 

Creche  Margaret  Etter 94  German  Relief  Society 143 

Creche, St.  James  Church 187  German  Society  of  Chicago 143 

Creche, Unity 208  Glenwopd   School   of  Ag.  and   M. 

Creche, University 51          Training 67 

Creche — List  (Day  Nurseries) 4  Girls  Industrial  School,   Chicago. 173 

Cruelty,  Prevention  of 78  Good  Shepherd,  House  of  the. 174 

Cushing  Free  Kindergarten 51  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 155 

Crippled  Children's   Home 112  Guardian  Angel  Orphan  Asylum. .174 

Danish  Lutheran  Children's  Homel96  Guardians,  State 238 

Danish  Relief  Society 150  Hahnemann  Hospital 229 

Deaconess'  Home.M.  E  197  Half  Orphan  Asylum 39 

Deaconess'  Orphanage,  M.  E 198  H aisled  Street  Mission 199 

Deaconess'  Society,    German 166  Hebrew  Charities 213 

Deaf&Dumb,    111    School  for  the. 244  Herford  Kindergarten 207 

Diet  Kitchen,    Hull  House 65  Holland  Relief  Society 151 

Diet  School 184  Holy  Family  Orphan  Asylum 175 

Dispensaries- -List 60  Home  for  Working   Girls 177 

Ear  and  Eye  Infirmary,   111.  Char-        Home  for  Incurables 32 

itable 253  Home  for  Working  Boys 175 

Elgin  Insane  Asylum 250  Home  for  Convalescents 188 

Emergency   Hospital 229  Home  for  Crippled  Children 112 

Employment    Bureau,     Home    for        Home  for  the   Friendless 24 

Self-Supporting  Women 62  Home  for  Self-Supporting  Women.  62 

Employment  Bureau,    United  He-         Homeopathic  (Baptist)  Hosp 172 

brew    Charities 212  Homes  for  the   Children— List 4 

Employment  Bureau— List 4  Homes  for  the  Aged— List 4 

Endowed  Charities 44  Homes  for  Women — List 4 

English  Relief  Society 153  Hospitals— List 4 

Englewood  Nursery 52  Hull  House  ,....  65 

Episcopal  Charities 184  Humane  Society,  111 78 

Epworth  House 201   House  of  the  Good  Shepherd 174 

Erring  Woman's  Refuge  19  House  of  Mercy 177 

Evanston  Indust.  School  for  Girls.  .73  Incurables,    Home  for 32 

Exchange  for  Woman's  Work 22  Indust.  School  for  Girls,   Chicago. 173 

Eye  and   Ear   Infirmary,  111.    Char-        Industrial  School  for  Girls.  Ill 73 

itable 253  Industrial  Schools— List  of  Homes 

Feeble  Minded  Children,  111.    Asy-  for  Children 4 

lum • 240  Inebriates'  Home  (Washingtonian)129 

Feehanville    Training   School    for         Infectious  Disease  Ward  Cook  Co. 

Boys  (St.  Mary's) 180          Hospital 23* 

Florence  Crittendcn  Anchorage  for          Infirmary.Cook  County 236 

Girls 139  Infirmary, Eye  and  Ear 255 

Flower  Mission 28  Insane  Asylum,  Cook  Co 234 

Foundlings'    Home 33  Insane  Asylum — List 5- 

FreeBaths 100  Insane  Criminals.  111.  Asylum 248 

Free  Dispensary  Central 18  Institute.Mechanics', Chicago 38 

Free  Kindergarten  Association 85  Institute  of  Manual  Training 105- 

Fresh  Air   Ass'n,  Lake  Geneva 91   Institute,  Armour's 105. 

Fresh  Air  Fund 10~  III.    Asylum   for     Feeble     Minded 

Fresh  Air  Work— List 4          Children 24O 

Friendless— Home  for  the 24   111.  Asylum  for  Insane  Criminals.  .252 

friendly  Aid  Society  61   111.  Cent.  Hospital  for  Insane 249 

257 


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111..  Charitable  Eye   and    Ear    In-        Mechanics' Institute, Chicago 38 

firmary 263  Mercy  Hospital 176 

111.  Conference    of  Charities  and        Methodist   Charities ;197 

Corrections 13  Methodist  Episc.  Deaconess'  Homel97 

111.  Eastern    Insane  Asylum,    Kan-        Michael  Reese  Hospital  of  United 

kakee.. . . 245          Hebrew    Charities ...212 

Illinois  Humane   Society 78  Minnetonka  Hotel,  Working  Wom- 

Illinois  Industrial  Association. ....  83          an  s Home  Association 124 

111.     Industrial    School     foi    Girls        Morgue,  Cook  County   Hospital.... 232 

(Evanston) 73  Needlework  Guild 123 

III.  Institution  for  the  Education  of        Newsboys'  Home 95 

the  Blind 242  Normal  Soldiers' and   Sailors'    Or- 

111.    Institution   for  the   Education  phan's   Home 240 

of  the  Deaf  and    Dumb .-...244  Northern  Hosp.  for  the  Insane 250 

III.  Masonic  Orphan's   Home 160  Norwegian  Relief  Society 151 

111.  Northern  Hospital  for  Insane.. 250  Northwest   Charity   Association..  .215 
111.  School  of  Agriculture  and  Man-        Nurseries.   Day — List 4 

ual    Training 67  Nursery  &  Half  Orphan   Asylum...  39 

111.    Soldiers'   and  Sailors' Home..  159  Nurse  Association,  Visiting        127 

111.  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Orphans'        Nurses' Training  Schools — List....     4 

Home 240  Old  People's  Home 97 

III.  Southern  Hosp.   for  Insane...  247  Old  People's  Home.German 147 

111.  St.  Andrew's   Society 152  Orphan  Asylum,  Chicago 35 

111.  Training  School  for  Nurses 82  Orphan  Asylum,  Uhlich's  Ev.  L. .  .193 

Jacksonville  Hosp.  for   Insane 249  Orphan  Asylum,  Guardian  Angel..  174 

Jacksonville  Institution  for  the  Ed.         Orphan   Asylum,  St.    Joseph  Prov- 

of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  244  idence 179 

Jacksonville  Institution  for  the  Ed.         Orphans,  Church  Home  for 192 

of  the  Blind 242  Orphans' Home.Soldiers' and  Sail- 
Jewish  Training  School ;..216          ors' 240 

Justice,  .Bureau  of 15  Out  Door  Relief,   County 231 

Juvenile  Female  Offenders 238  Police  Department  Report 255 

Kankakee  Insane  Asylum 245  Placing  out   Children— List 4 

Kindergartens.  Enumerations  of..  88  Presbyterian  Hospital 203 

Kindergarten  Ass'n— List  4  Protective  Agency  for  Women  and 

Kindergarten  College 87  Children 98 

Kirkland  Free  Dispensary 167  Protective  Agencies — List 4 

Kitchengarten  Ch.  of  the  Messiah  207  Providence  Orphan  Asylum  S    Jos. 179 
Ki  chengarten  Halsted  St.  Mission  199  Provident    Hospital    and    Training 

Ladies  of  the  G.  A.   R 158          School 101 

Lake  Geneva   Fresh   Air  Ass  n 94  Provident  Laundry,  Home  for  S.  S. 

Laundry — Provident— Home  for  S.  Women 64 

S.   Women fifl  Public  School  Kindergartens 90 

LightandHope  Hospital. 226  Ouincy  Soldiers'  &  Sailors'  Home     159 

Lincoln  Asylum  for  Feeble  Minded        Reformatories — List 4 

Children 240  Red  Cross  Society Ill 

Lincoln  Park  Sanitarium     107  Refuge  for  En  ing  Women 19 

Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor,  Homes..  176  Relief  &  Aid  Society,  Chicago 42 

Lutheran  Charities : ; 194  Relief-Giving  Societies — List 4 

Lutheran  Childr'n's  Home (Danish)196  Relief       Office— United       Hebrew 

Lutheran  Orphan  Asy.  (Uhlich's)..  193          Charities 212 

Manual  Training,  Institute   for 38  Report  of  Department  of  Police 142 

Manual  Training,  School   of  Agr.  &  67  Rush  Medical   College   Dispensary  18 

Manual  Training  School,  All  Souls210  Sailors'  &  Soldiers'Home  159 

Margaret  Etter  Creche 94  Sanitarium,  Lincoln   Park 107 

Marine  Hospital 250  School  Children's  Aid.   ...     102 

Mary  A.  Ahrens    Mission 170  School    f  Agriculture  and  Manual 

Masonic  Orphan's   Home 161          Training .  67 

Martha  Washington  Home 132  Scotch  Relief  Society  (St.Andrew's)I52 

Maternity      Department,     Presby-        Self-Supporting  Women's   Home..   62 

terian    Hospital 203  Social  Settlements— List 66 

Maurice  Porter  Memorial  Hospital        Soldiers ...  155 

for  Children 92  Soldiers' Home  (Ass'n)in  Chicago.  lv>' 


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Soldiers' Relief  Association :>29  Tbe    Presbyterian    Hospital,  City 

Soldiers      and    Sailors'    Orphans'  of  Chicago 203 

.Home 240  Training  School,  Waifs  Mission..  168 

Soldiers' and  Sailors'   Home....   ..159  Training  School  for  Nurses,  111....  82 

Southern  Hosp.  for  the  Insane 247  Training  School  for  Nurses — List..    4 

State  Charities ?38  Training  School,  Provident  Laun- 

State  Board  of  Public  Charities... 2WJ         dry 64 

State  Institution  List 4  Transient  Home.Y.  W.  C.  A 163 

St.  Andrew's  Society 152  Traveler's  Aid  Department,  Y.  W. 

St.  Elizabeth  Hospital 182          C.  A.   163 

St.  George's   Benevolent  Ass'n 153    Uhlich's  Evangelical  Lutheran  Or- 

St.  JamtsChurch  Creche 187          phan  Asylum 193 

St.  Joseph's  Home 177  Unitarian    Charities  207 

St.  Joseph's  Hospital 175  Universalist    Charities 206 

St  Joseph's  Orphan  Asylum 178  Unity  Church  Ind.  School 208 

St.    Joseph's      Providence  Orphan        United   Hebrew  Charities  of  Chi- 

Asylum 179          cago 212 

St.  Joseph's  Home  and  School   for        United  States   Marine  Hospital 250 

Deaf  Mutes 177  University    Creche  51 

St.  Luke's  Dispensary 184  Visitation  and  Aid  Society 181 

St.  Luke's  Hospital 184  Visiting  Nurse  Association 127 

St.  Mary's  Home   for  Children 186  Waifs'  Mission  and  Training Schooll68 

St.  Mary's  Mission   Dispensary 186  Washingtonian  Home 129 

St.  Mary's  Mission  House Wesley  Hospital 200 

St.    Mary's    Training  School    for        Western   Society  for  the  Suppres- 

Boys 180          sioncfVice 134 

St.    Paul's    Church   Free     Kinder-        Woman's     Baptist   Home    Mission 

garten 206          Society 172 

St.  Paul's  Church  Indust.   School. .206  Women  and   Children's  Protective 

St.  Vincent  Infant  Asylum 183          Agency i 98 

Suppression    of     Vice,      Western        Woman's    Christian    Temperance 

Society 134          Union 138 

Swedish  Home  of  Mercy 229  Woman's  Refuge  for  Reform 19 

Swiss  Benevolent   Society 154  Woman's  Relief  Corps  of  Ills 155 

Talcott  Day  Nursery,  W.  C.T.  U..I39  Women's  Work  Exchange 22 

The  Country  Week 107  Women's  Homes — List 4 

The  Daily  News  Fresh  Air  Fund..  107  Wood  Yards— C   R.andA.   C 46 

The  Lincoln  Park  Sanitarium 107  Working  Women's  Home  Ass'n 124 

The  Minnetonka  Hotel  for  Women.124   Young  Women's  Christian  Ass'n.  .163 
The   Newsboys'   and    Bootblacks'        Young  Women's  Home 141 

Association 95 


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